The Golden Bat (黄金バット) 58 years old

The Golden Bat

A teenage boy discovers that the planet Icarus is on a collision course with Earth by gazing through his telescope. Scoffed at by the scientific establishment, the boy is kidnapped and brought to a secret UN base in the Japan alps. He is immediately inducted into the secret program whose mission is to finish the Super-Destruction Beam cannon and destroy Icarus. The cannon is missing a special mineral for the lens. The team heads for a mysterious island in the middle of the Pacific. There they find ancient ruins of Atlantis but they are suddenly attacked by a strange drill shaped metal squid spaceship. It's commanded by the evil being Nazu who has engineered the collision with Icarus! He doesn't want to share the universe with humans and he really doesn't want the cannon finished. The action is on and the team discovers the Golden Bat who has been asleep for over 10,000 years awaiting this very moment to save the earth!

Credits

The Golden Bat Cast

Name Character
Hirohisa Nakata He was 23, now 81 years old as Shimizu
Yoichi Numata He was 42, 81 years old when he died as Keloid
Sonny Chiba He was 27, now 85 years old as Dr. Yamatone
Hisako Tsukuba She was 27, now 85 years old as Naomi Akiyama
Kôji Sekiyama He was 37, now 95 years old as Nazo
Andrew Hughes (actor) He was 58, 88 years old when he died as Dr. Pearl

The Golden Bat Crew

Name Department
Susumu Takaku as Screenplay. He was 33 (76) years old when He died Writing
Shunsuke Kikuchi as Original Music Composer. He was 35 (now 93) years old Sound
Hajime Sato as Director. He was 37 (66) years old when He died Directing
The Golden Bat poster
The Golden Bat (58 years)

  • Release day: Wednesday, December 21, 1966
  • Runtime: 73 minutes