Product Details

• Directors: Ishiro Honda
• Format: Anamorphic, Widescreen, NTSC, Color, Subtitled
• Language: Japanese, English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: August 18, 2009
• Run Time: 259 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0024FAG2G
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,343 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Icons of Sci-Fi: Toho Collection (The H-Man / Battle in Outer Space / Mothra)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great movies, horrible (and cheap) package design, August 18, 2009

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S. Boone "TheatreX" (Louisville, KY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Icons of Sci-Fi: Toho Collection (The H-Man / Battle in Outer Space / Mothra) (DVD)

I was delighted to go out & buy this today, because I've wanted these movies for a long time on DVD, but when I opened up the box, I was dismayed to see that the package design has all three DVD's sitting on top of each other...no separation at all, just all sitting on the same center post. So someone at Sony probably got kudos for saving money, but we fans get an extremely cheap package & discs that will undoubtably be scratched in removal & shifting around. That is, if they're left in this configuration. I might find something better to put these in. Boo, hiss.

However, I did watch "Mothra" (my favorite of the 3) and I'd never seen the Japanese language version before, and all three films DO have the (edited and shorter) English versions, plus, the Japanese versions...which is pretty cool.

I noticed that all the other reviews for this were all "in anticipation" of this set & not from anyone that had actually gotten their mitts on it yet. I'm certainly glad to have these films, but the crappy package design did not set well with me...bet you won't see many used copies of this on Amazon posted as "like new". Five Stars for the movies, One Star for the package, which averages out to Three Stars.....

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very bad packaging, August 19, 2009

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J. Scott "Grizz" (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Icons of Sci-Fi: Toho Collection (The H-Man / Battle in Outer Space / Mothra) (DVD)

The movies themselves are great but the packaging is terrible. All three movies are sitting on top of each other in a single case. They could of at least made it a double dvd case so only one would be stacked on another. Other than that they came in good condition and the movies are great. All are in original TohoScope ratios, Englis running time 259 minutes and Japanese running time 277 minutes, English subs, English and Japanese Languages. Special Features are commentaries on Mothra and Battle in Outer Space by Authors and Japanese SciFi Historians Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski.

46 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This should please fans of Japanese monster/fantasy fans, May 22, 2009

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D. Steigman "Movie fan from silents to now" (SF, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Icons of Sci-Fi: Toho Collection (The H-Man / Battle in Outer Space / Mothra) (DVD)

This DVD contains Mothra, H-Man and Battle in Outer Space - This DVD has both Japanese and English language versions of the movies & are widescreen transfers. I expected these to be clean & crisp letterboxed actually - in Tohoscope & that is what they are.
All 3 of these movies were made by the people who brought us Godzilla such as Ishiro Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya and music by Akira Ifukube.
MOTHRA (1961) would be the main attraction starring Jerry Ito and the 1 inch Peanuts as they were called. Mothra rescues them after being kidnapped by gangsters. A magnificent movie done with style and taste.
BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE is a loose follow up to The Mysterians minus any monsters but it is a spectacular effects and an endless array of laser ray light show with rocket ships, UFOs and other space crafts. Great special effects during its day.
The H-MAN was the one I watched first since I hadn't seen this in ages..it is relatively short (under 90 minutes) and it basically about a person who becomes an H-Man (hydrogen man) as a result of hydrogen bomb testing - the h-man is a greenish blob that eats other people turning them into oozing blob monsters which also appear in a 'ghost' like form. I watched the English language version and the transfer is nice, and the film is ok,basically it is a lesser title, but still fun to watch. Great effects by Eiji Tsuburaya and lots of lovely Japanese ladies. More or less a Japanese version of the Blob..
All 3 were on VHS in full frame versions and were somewhat obscure. Now we can get them all in letterboxed transfers and see them how they were originally meant to be seen.
The DVD packaging for this is terrible. 3 discs with each movie stacked ON TOP of each other like a layered cake or pancakes. This is an easy way to damage the DVD's.