d6a2afd33b Japanese disaster film about a giant meteor on a collision course with the Earth. The dubbed American version of this film is missing a giant walrus which appeared briefly in the Japanese version. 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&#39;s scientists then come up with a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move Earth out of Gorath&#39;s path before it is too late. Gosh darn it, I thought this was better than Gojira (1954) and Rodan (1956). The plot is extremely unique, interesting, and realistic. The mechanics in this movie was pretty kickass and cool. JX-2, Capsule No.1, UN VTOL… It&#39;s just great. I thought Magma (the kaiju in this movie) was pretty cool. That walrus looking face was quite charming, but it&#39;s a bummer that he didn&#39;t get that much screen time. Now let&#39;s talk about Gorath. The prop&#39;s base was made by an acrylic ball. It&#39;s texture made it look like a dangerous star. Any I&#39;ll give this movie a 9/10, you should probably watch it, it&#39;s pretty good. Here&#39;s Leonyan signing off. An &quot;End of Days&quot; sort epic from Japan&#39;s Toho studios, bring together Godzilla&#39;s founding father-team of Tanaka, Honda, and Tsuburaya to work on this film, minus a musical score by Akira Ifukube. Another good story-line, where a meteor is on its course to Earth and is predicted to destroy the entire planet completely. Therefore, it&#39;s up to the Japanese eggheads to dodge the flying fireball. As always, Toho sci-fi films are very imaginative, but this one takes the cake: move the Earth with huge rockets to dodge the meteor, with the Moon being destroyed in the process. Very far-fetched, but yet, pure sci-fi action.<br/><br/>Veteran actresses Kumi Mizuno and Yumi Shirakawa shine. Akira Kubo, known for his type-casted hero portrayals, is very annoying in this film though. Aside from that, an average film that could have used more monster scenes and action, instead of the usual scientist concoctions to save the world. I have got to say that even though Takeshi Kimura, known for his more somber stories, wrote the screenplay, there are a few funny scenes, including the part where Shirakawa&#39;s character bangs the door on her brother&#39;s head after he was caught eavesdropping on a meeting with the lead scientist. <br/><br/>If you choose to watch this film, I recommend watching the original Japanese version,the American version cuts out scenes that include Magma, the gigantic walrus. <br/><br/>Grade C+
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