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* StockFootage: Shots of the Tokyo Tower and the Diet Building getting bombed are lifted from a 1960 Japanese UsefulNotes/ColdWar film ''World War III Breaks Out'', in what is supposed to be a kid's movie. Even weirder: ''World War III Breaks Out'' was recut and dubbed into English as ''The Final War'' several years later. The English-language version included additional effects footage from...''Invasion of the Neptune Men''.

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Shots of the Tokyo Tower and the Diet Building getting bombed are lifted from a 1960 Japanese UsefulNotes/ColdWar film ''World War III Breaks Out'', in what is supposed to be a kid's movie. Even weirder: ''World War III Breaks Out'' was recut and dubbed into English as ''The Final War'' several years later. The English-language version included additional effects footage from...''Invasion of the Neptune Men''.
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* CurbStompBattle: Averted, only due to {{Padding}}, when Japan finally decides to fight back, the Neptune Men are defeated with a couple missiles.
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* CaptainSpaceDefenderOfEarth: Space Chief is such a ridicolous space hero he would make the Film/PrinceOfSpace look like ComicBook/AdamStrange.
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* VocalDissonance: Due to bad dubbing a lot of the characters have voices that sound ''nothing'' like how you'd think they would sound.
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* CutAndPasteTranslation: The English dub padded out the final battle into a StockFootage driven mess.
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** Averted with the "Hitler Building," which appears to be a billboard advertising Erwin Leiser's documentary ''Mein Kampf'', which was released in Japan during filming. It's still unclear why the filmmakers included this shot, unless they thought it was a striking image (true enough, though not in the way they likely intended).

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** Averted with the "Hitler Building," which appears to be a billboard advertising Erwin Leiser's documentary ''Mein Kampf'', which was released in Japan during while ''Neptune Men'' was filming. It's still unclear why the filmmakers included this shot, unless they thought it was a striking image (true enough, though not in the way they likely intended).

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