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The Golden Bat

The Golden Bat

1966•1h 13m•5.9/10
Science FictionAdventureAction

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5.9/10(17)

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!

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Production

Toei Company

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Sonny Chiba

Sonny Chiba

Dr. Yamatone

Wataru Yamagawa

Akira Kazahaya

Hisako Tsukuba

Hisako Tsukuba

Naomi Akiyama

Emily Takami

Emily Paird

Osamu Kobayashi

Osamu Kobayashi

Ogon Bat (voice)

Andrew Hughes

Dr. Pearl

Hirohisa Nakata

Hirohisa Nakata

Shimizu

Kosaku Okano

Nakamura

Kōji Sekiyama

Kōji Sekiyama

Nazo

Yōichi Numata

Yōichi Numata

Keloid

Keiichi Kitagawa

Jackal

Keiko Kuni

Keiko Kuni

Piranha

Yukio Aoshima

Akira Katayama

Akira Katayama

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