- Country: Japan
- Genres: Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Release: 1964-05-15
- Director: Ishirō Honda
- Writers: Takeshi Kimura , Jôjirô Okami , John Meredyth Lucas
- Language: Japanese | English
- Stars: Ryō Ikebe , Yumi Shirakawa , Akira Kubo , Kumi Mizuno , Hiroshi Tachikawa , Akihiko Hirata , Kenji Sahara , Jun Tazaki , Ken Uehara , Takashi Shimura
- Runtime: 83 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Astronaut 1980 , Suspicious Star Gorath , Gorath (Australia) , 妖星ゴラス (Japan) , Suspicous Star Gorath , Le choc des planètes (France, French Republic) , Ufos Zerstoeren Die Erde (Germany) , Горас , Gorath, the Mysterious Star , Ufos zerstören die Erde , Yôsei Gorasu , Yôsei Gorath (Japan) , Gorath (United States of America) , Απειλή από το κέντρο του σύμπαντος (Greece)
- Plot:
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.
- IMDB:tt0056709
Gorath Cast · · · ALL
Ishirō Honda
Director
Ryō Ikebe
Dr. Tazawa
Yumi Shirakawa
Tomoko Sonoda
Akira Kubo
Tatsuma Kanai
Kumi Mizuno
Takiko Nomura
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Wakabayashi
Akihiko Hirata
Endô
Kenji Sahara
Saiki
Ken Uehara
Dr. Kôno
Takashi Shimura
Kensuke Sonoda
Seizaburō Kawazu
Tada - Minister of Finance
Kō Mishima
Sanada
Sachio Sakai
Physician
Takamaru Sasaki
Prime Minister Seki
Kō Nishimura
Murata - Secretary of Space
Eitarō Ozawa
Kinami - Minister of Justice
Kôzô Nomura
Observer of Ôtori
Keiko Sata
Prime Minister's Secretary
Hideyo Amamoto
Man in Bar
George Furness
Hooverman
Ross Benette
Gibson
Jun’ichirô Mukai
Space Base Security Guard
Nadao Kirino
Manabe
Fumio Sakashita
Hayao Sonoda
Ikio Sawamura
Taxi Driver
Toshihiko Furuta
Observer of Ôtori