Ufos zerstören die Erde (1962)

Ufos zerstören die Erde: Directed by Ishirô Honda. With Ryô Ikebe, Yumi Shirakawa, Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno. 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’s scientists then come up with a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move Earth out of Gorath’s path before it is too late.

“This film is one of my favorites from Tohou0026#39;s u0026quot;Golden Ageu0026quot; and one of the three u0026quot;space operasu0026quot; directed by Ishiro Honda. A giant asteroid with a huge magnetic field is growing by absorbing everything in its path…a path which puts it on a course to Earth. How will man survive? Easy—through the conviction and determination of Japanese will-power and ingenuity, the Earth is pushed out of orbit after giant engines are built at the South Pole. But is it enough to get the Earth out of the path of Gorath?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOne scene that most Americans have never seen is the appearance of MAGMA, a giant prehistoric walrus which was awakened by the heat generated at the South Pole by the massive engines. After some initial destruction, the monster is killed by beams fired from a VTOL vehicle (which would see a new life in the TV series, u0026quot;Ultramanu0026quot; as the u0026quot;Jet Beetle.u0026quot;)u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eKumi Mizuno shines as one of the female leads with a great bathtub scene when Akira Kubo comes knocking on her door.”