Battle in Outer Space, released in Japan as The Great Space War (宇宙大戦争 Uchū Daisensō?) is a tokusatsu film produced and released by Toho Studios in Japan in 1959, and distributed worldwide (sans Far East Territories) in 1960 by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was written by Shinichi Sekizawa (from a story by Jojiro Okami) and was brought to the screen by Toho's well-known kaiju eiga specialists, Ishirō Honda, Eiji Tsuburaya, Tomoyuki Tanaka, and composer Akira Ifukube.