Title | : | Gorath |
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Release | : | 1962 |
Rating | : | 5.9 |
Language | : | Japanese, English |
Runtime | : | 88 |
Genre | : | Action,Family,Sci-Fi,Thriller |
In 1980, a giant planetoid named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Even though it is smaller than Earth, its mass is huge enough to crush the Earth and destroy it. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after all the orbiting ships are drawn into the planetoid. A later mission is sent to observe and the crew barely leaves before suffering the same fate. However Astronaut Tatsuo Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. The Earth's scientists then come up with a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move Earth out of Gorath's path before it is too late.
Takeshi Kimura (screenplay), Jôjirô Okami (story), John Meredyth Lucas