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Gorath (1962)
Directed by Ishirō Honda
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Overview
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth’s scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath’s path before it is too late.
Length 88 minutes
Actors
Ryô Ikebe | Yumi Shirakawa | Akira Kubo | Kumi Mizuno | Hiroshi Tachikawa | Akihiko Hirata | Kenji Sahara | Jun Tazaki | Ken Uehara | Takashi Shimura | Seizaburô Kawazu | Ko Mishima | Sachio Sakai | Takamaru Sasaki | Kô Nishimura | Eitarô Ozawa | Kôzô Nomura | Keiko Sata | Hideyo Amamoto | George Furness | Ross Benette | Jun'ichirô Mukai | Nadao Kirino | Fumio Sakashita | Ikio Sawamura | Toshihiko Furuta | Yoshiyuki Uemura | Rinsaku Ogata | Masayoshi Kawabe | Yasushi Matsubara | Tadashi Okabe | Kôji Uno | Yukihiko Gondô | Ken'ichirô Maruyama | Yasuhiko Saijô | Katsumi Tezuka | Akira Yamada | Hiroshi Takagi | Toshitsugu Suzuki | Wataru Ômae | Ichirô Shôji | Yasuo Araki | Hideo Shibuya | Kazuo Imai | Takuya Yuki | Yusuke Suzuki | Takuzô Kumagai | Hiroshi Akitsu | Enver Altenbay | Ryûtarô Amami | Henrî Ban | Hank Brown | Ichirô Chiba | Kenzo Echigo | Bin Furuya | Ted Gunther | Shinjirô Hirota | Hans Horneff | Tsurue Ichimanji | Toku Ihara | Saburô Iketani | Minoru Itô | Ralph Jesser | Saburô Kadowaki | Kuniyoshi Kashima | Yoshio Katsuda | Keiichirô Katsumoto | Shigeo Katô | Ikuo Kawamura | Akira Kitchôji | Akio Kusama | Edo Kîn | Someshô Matsumoto | Masahide Matsushita | Jirô Mitsuaki | Takashi Narita | Junpei Natsuki | Yutaka Oka | Keiji Sakakida | Haruya Sakamoto | Ryôji Shimizu | Junnosuke Suda | Haruo Suzuki | Kamayuki Tsubono | Keisuke Yamada | Shin Yoshida | Osman Yusuf | Yasumasa Ônishi | Hideo Ôtsuka | Haruo Nakajima | Kôji Suzuki | Masaya Nihei
Viewing History (seen 4 times)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/01/2023 | TV | Broadcast | TV | 7 stars |
| 07/13/2021 | TV | Broadcast | Other | 6.5 stars |
| 05/30/2018 | Computer | Other | Other | 6.5 stars |
| 07/06/2015 | Computer | Other | Other | 0 stars |
| (Average) 5 stars |
Viewing Notes
DKU scheduled a fun double feature tonight for their Jeopardy in July (all disaster movies) evening. I’ve seen this one a couple of times but not on my TV so I decided to make it a dinner & a movie thing and catch it on the rebroadcast after viewing THE LAST WAR earlier. It makes for a better viewing to watch this second bc it’s so hopeful and brings the world together to stop a major catastrophe (unlike THE LAST WAR where the major super powers unleash WWIII).
Between both films you’re treated to a deep studio cast of all-stars. I dunno why I forgot Kumi Mizuno was in this but she alone is worth the watch. But you also get Takashi Shimura and Akira Kubo and Akihiko Hirata and many more familiar faces. Plus there’s Ifukube’s rousing score in which he borrows some riffs from his Gojira theme. Tsubaraya FX are on display including the kaiju walrus. Wouldn’t classify this as a *great* Honda film but it’s sweet message about uniting and working together with a game cast.
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