Japan Synopsis
黄金バット
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!
The 1965–1967 Japan Window
71 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. The Golden Bat sits at position #60.
Other Titles From Toei Company
The 1960s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 1960s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Golden Bat premiered. 202 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #4,060 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (11th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -1.1 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Science Fiction productions specifically: #457 of 566 (top 81%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Toei Company |
| Runtime | 1h 13m |
| Release Date | December 21, 1966 |
| IMDb | tt0167320 |