Le Choc des planètes (1962)

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Ryô Ikebe

Dr. Tazawa - Astrophysicist

Yumi Shirakawa

Tomoko Sonoda

Akira Kubo

Tatsuma Kanai - Cadet Astronaut

Kumi Mizuno

Takiko Nomura

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Wakabayashi - Pilot of Ôtori

Akihiko Hirata

Endô - Captain of Ôtori

Kenji Sahara

Saiki - Vice Captain of Ôtori

Jun Tazaki

Raizô Sonoda - Tomoko's Father

Ken Uehara

Dr. Kôno - Astrophysicist

Takashi Shimura

Kensuke Sonoda - Paleontologist

Seizaburô Kawazu

Tada - Minister of Finance

Kô Mishima

Sanada - Engineer

Sachio Sakai

Physician

Takamaru Sasaki

Prime Minister Seki

Kô Nishimura

Murata - Secretary of Space

Eitarô Ozawa

Kinami - Minister of Justice

Masaya Nihei

Itô - Astronaut of Ôtori

Kôzô Nomura

Observer of Ôtori

Director
- Ishirô Honda
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Trivia
Originally, the film wasn't going to include the giant walrus Magma. However, producer Tomoyuki Tanaka insisted that the monster be put into the film and forced director Ishirô Honda to include it despite him being against it.

Goofs
When 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.

Quotes
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 versions
The 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.

Connections
Edited into Doomsday Machine (1976)

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.