Ominous Star Gorath

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Ominous Star Gorath (also known as Suspicious Star Gorath or Gorath) is an 1962 toho kaiju film,directed by Ishirō Honda.

## Plot

1980. Captain Sonoda's first Saturn exploration spacecraft Hayabusa took off from the spaceport at the foot of Mt. Fuji. When the rocket passed through Mars' orbit, communications from Earth reported the emergence of a new star. This is a monster that is 6,000 times larger than the Earth, and the Space Society named this nova Golas. Suddenly, the rocket was pulled by the gravitational pull of something. On Earth, a newspaper article on "The Falcon Distress of Saturn Exploration" caught the eye of people. Hayabusa's Golas research report warned that Golas could collide with the Earth if it proceeded in its current state. The United Nations has taken serious measures against Golas and has requested the Japanese government to dispatch the Fenghuang to investigate Golas. Now, to save the earth, it was one of two things: to blow up Golas or to escape the earth. At the spaceport, a 6.6 billion megaton thrust engine was planned by arranging nuclear jet pipes in Antarctica. Golas sucked the meteor and approached every moment. One day, a sudden tremor occurred at the thrust engine center and a dinosaur appeared. I made 72 hours of empty money for this monster. Tokyo Tower, which growls in strong winds, has already submerged a quarter of it in water. --The crisis of the earth. However, at that time, the nuclear jet engine started to move, and the earth escaped from Golas' orbit. Science has finally won.

## Cast

* Ryō Ikebe as Dr. Tazawa - Astrophysicist
* Yumi Shirakawa as Tomoko Sonoda
* Akira Kubo as Tatsuma Kanai - Cadet Astronaut
* Kumi Mizuno as Takiko Nomura
* Hiroshi Tachikawa as Wakabayashi - Pilot of Ōtori
* Akihiko Hirata as Endō - Captain of Ōtori
* Kenji Sahara as Saiki - Vice Captain of Ōtori
* Jun Tazaki as Raizō Sonoda - Tomoko's Father
* Ken Uehara as Dr. Kōno - Astrophysicist
* Takashi Shimura as Kensuke Sonoda - Paleontologist
* Seizaburō Kawazu as Tada - Minister of Finance
* Kō Mishima as Sanada - Engineer
* Sachio Sakai as Physician
* Takamaru Sasaki as Prime Minister Seki
* Kō Nishimura as Murata - Secretary of Space
* Fumio Sakashita as Hayao Sonoda - Tomoko's Brother

### Uncredited

* Magma  : Haruo Nakajima
* Otori crew: Minoru Ito , Ikuo Kawamura
* Otori crew, space station observer: Ken Echigo
* Man in mourning: Junpei Natsuki
* Government officials: AzumaShizuko , Yasumasa Onishi , Matsueda Ono, Katsumoto Keiichiro , Yoshiitadakitera Akira , Kusama Akiraotto , Sakakita Keiji , Jun'nosuke Suda, Noriyuki Tsubono sickle , Yoshiko Nakano, Hirota ShinJiro, Yoichiro Kitagawa , Matsumoto Somemasu , Keisuke Yamada
* Government officials, Antarctic base workers: Ryutaro Amami, Takashi Narita
* Government official, spaceport doctor: Ryusuke Saijo
* Government official, man pointing up: Hiroshi Akitsu
* Newspaper reporters: Hideo Otsuka, Ober Wyatt, Nobuo Katsura, Haruya Sakamoto , Satoru Shinno, Bin Furuya
* Newspaper reporter, space station observer: Yoshio Katsube , Saburo Kadowaki
* Newspaper reporter, government official: Haruo Suzuki
* Newspaper reporter: Bin Furuya
* Newspaper reporter, man on the observation floor of Tokyo Tower: Ko Hayami
* Antarctic base worker: Isao Ihara , OkaYutaka , Osman Youssef , Kuniyoshi Kashima, Shigeo Kato , Masaaki Tachibana , dead Gunther, Hank Brown, Matsushita Masahide, Rolf Jessa
* Antarctic base member, reporter: Enver Altenbay
* Base designer: Ryoji Shimizu
* Announcer: Saburo Iketani
* Sonoda family maid: 10,000 Jitsuru Megumi
* Secretary: Terumi Oka
* USSO Representative: Ed Keene
* Conference Man: Van Henry

## Staff

* Production: Tomoyuki Tanaka
* Original: Jojiro Oka
* Screenplay: Takeshi Kimura
* Photo: Ichi Koizumi
* Art: Takeo Kita , Teruaki Abe
* Recording: Toshiya Ban
* Lighting: Toshio Takashima
* Music: Kan Ishii
* Sound adjustment: Hisashi Shimonaga
* Assistant Director: Koji Kajita
* Edited by: Reiko Kaneko
* Development: Tokyo Laboratory
* Producer: Yasuaki Sakamoto
* Special technology
	+ Photography: sadamasa arikawa , Tomioka Motokei
	+ Optical photography: Takao Yuki , Yukio Manoda
	+ Art: Akira Watanabe
	+ Lighting: Kuichiro Kishida
	+ Synthesis: Hiroshi Mukoyama
	+ Producer: Narita Kan
* Special skill director: Eiji Tsuburaya
* Director: Honda Inoshiro

### Uncredited

* Assistant Director (SFX / Chief) / Assistant Director (SFX / Chief): Masakatsu Asai
* Steel: Kazukiyo Tanaka
* Assistant Director (SFX) / Assistant Director (SFX): Teruyoshi Nakano
* Photography assistant (SFX): Yoichi Noda true  , Maro Toki Karasawa  , Takeshi Yamamoto  , Takao Tsurumi
* Lighting Assistant (SFX): Fun'yoshi Hara  , Yoshio Oguchi  , Katsumi Murakami  , Hideo Hata  , Akira Oba  , Tsuneo Tanami  , Nobuo Kiyomatsu  , Kawagoe Kazumi
* Art Assistant (SFX): Yasuyuki Inoue  , Yoshio Irie
* Props (special effects): Hisazo Yamamoto
* Illuminations (special effects): Akira Suzuki
* Modeling: Teizo Toshimitsu  , Yasuei Yagi  , Kanju Yagi  , Eizo Kaimai  , Sakae Terui
* Special Machines ( SFX ): Fumio Nakashiro  , Shoji Ogawa  , Koji Matsumoto
* Optical photography: Yoshiyuki Tokumasa
* Special effects drawing: Sadao Iizuka
* Editing (special effects): Kiyoko Ishii
* Art Assistant (SFX): Jiro Shirasaki.

* Shooting assistant (special effects): Koichi Kawakita
* Model Illuminations: Akinori Takagi.

## Titles

* Calamity Star Gorath (Translated Japanese title)
* Demon stars (Japanese: 妖星ゴラス Original Japanese release title)
* Ominous Star Gorath (Translated Japanese title)
* Suspicious Star Gorath (Japanese title)

## Release

### U.S. release

*Gorath* was released theatrically in Japan on 21 March 1962 where it was distributed by Toho. It was released in the United States as *Gorath* by Brenco Pictures through Allied Artists Pictures with an English-language dub on 15 May 1964. The film was double-billed in the United States with The first Gas Human (made).

## Overview

A spectacle that was written by Takeshi Kimura of "The Human Vapor No. 1" from the original draft of Jojiro Oka and directed by Inoshiro Honda of Combi. Shooting is also a combination of Ichi Koizumi. Perspector stereophonic sound.