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Gorath (1962)

Directed by Ishirō Honda

Science Fiction | Disaster | Thriller

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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)

Viewing Notes

One of those movies that doesn’t sink in then I have to watch it again to recall what’s it all about. Gorath followed KONG ESCAPES so I just stuck w/DKUTV and watched it since I had that thought again, “what’s this about?” Of course once it gets going I remembered. Funny how the recent WANDERING EARTH movie borrows from this story, not that it’s all that original but just funny to see the same story in a 2019 film.

This has an example of what I was talking about w/Hideyo Amamoto in the previous entry for KK ESCAPES; he has a total bit part as a bar patron with one line in this movie. Like, he’s under contract at Toho to be in every movie so sure just stick him in one scene. The cast is quite deep for this one, too.

Love the miniatures for the South Pole sequences. Looks like a cool model train diorama.

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