The Golden Bat

Overview

A teenage boy discovers that the planet Icarus is on a collision course with Earth by gazing through his telescope. Scoffed at by the scientific establishment, the boy is kidnapped and brought to a secret UN base in the Japan alps. He is immediately inducted into the secret program whose mission is to finish the Super-Destruction Beam cannon and destroy Icarus. The cannon is missing a special mineral for the lens. The team heads for a mysterious island in the middle of the Pacific. There they find ancient ruins of Atlantis but they are suddenly attacked by a strange drill shaped metal squid spaceship. It's commanded by the evil being Nazu who has engineered the collision with Icarus! He doesn't want to share the universe with humans and he really doesn't want the cannon finished. The action is on and the team discovers the Golden Bat who has been asleep for over 10,000 years awaiting this very moment to save the earth!

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 21, 1966

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Toei Company

Cast

Sonny Chiba,Wataru Yamagawa,Hisako Tsukuba,Emily Takami,Osamu Kobayashi,Andrew Hughes,Hirohisa Nakata,Kosaku Okano,Kōji Sekiyama,Yōichi Numataand 4 more

Director

Hajime Sato

Writer

Susumu Takaku

Cinematography

Yoshikazu Yamasawa

Music

Shunsuke Kikuchi

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0167320