A Tokyo scientist and his colleagues shift Earth to avoid a red-hot planet on a collision course.A Tokyo scientist and his colleagues shift Earth to avoid a red-hot planet on a collision course.A Tokyo scientist and his colleagues shift Earth to avoid a red-hot planet on a collision course.
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- TriviaMagma or Maguma is one of the few monsters in the Toho menagerie to not appear in any films in the Godzilla series. There were plans to have the monster appear in Destroy All Monsters (1968) guarding the aliens' base, but it was decided not to include him. The Magma suit was however reused for the monster Todora in the series Ultra Q (1965), with added whiskers to make it look more walrus-like.
- GoofsWhen Gorath approaches Saturn, the rings are torn from the planet's orbit due to Gorath's gravity. However, the atmosphere should have also been torn away as well.
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News Anchor: If we could come together and cooperate to overcome the danger that threatened us, can't we take this opportunity to work together for all eternity?
- Alternate versionsThe American version eliminates a sequence wherein a giant walrus, known as Magma or Maguma, is released from the arctic ice and threatens the polar construction site before being killed by the military (however a brief shot showing its corpse is still kept in the American edit). Magma was not in the original script and was included at the insistence of producer Tomoyuki Tanaka. The American version re-arranges the loss of the moon as Gorath makes it's approach to Earth. In the Japanese version the Moon is lost at the beginning of the sequence; the American version re-edits this and makes this the final action before Gorath sweeps past the planet.
- ConnectionsEdited into Doomsday Machine (1976)
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Quite hilarious to watch. So many miniatures were used in the production that it feels a bit like revisiting the toy shop where you used to go as a child. "Yosei Gorasu" tells a variation of a familiar storyline "planet on collision course with Earth" insofar as its logical conclusion is not "blow up the invader" but "try and move the Earth out of the way", and for that purpose, an assembly of huge rocket engines is built in the Antarctic region which normally should take 20 years, but they manage the calculation, transport and construction work in a week or so. While any scientist will cringe, the producers openly admit the end of the world is not so serious after all by adding a giant walrus = a guy in a suit who appears without any reason and attacks a power station. The most impressive scenes are those of the flood sweeping Tokyo: a lot of miniatures again with attention to detail, the best you could do in 1962. Mixed bag, but it has memorable moments.
- unbrokenmetal
- Sep 24, 2008
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- Runtime1 hour 23 minutes
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