 | Kyuketsuki Gokemidoro (original title) Run time: 1h 24min Rating: 6.2 Genres: Horror,Sci-Fi Director: Hajime Satô Writers: Kyûzô Kobayashi, Susumu Takaku, Shôchiku Eiga Stars: Teruo Yoshida, Tomomi Satô, Eizô Kitamura Year: 1968 Source:  |
| Storyline We begin with Japan Airlines flight 307 en route to Osaka from Haneda Airport in Tokyo. It will be an eventful flight, to say the least. The pilot and First Officer Sugisaka are both rather concerned about the weather system their plane is headed into, for neither man can think of any natural atmospheric phenomenon capable of turning the sky that particular shade of vivid, flaming orange— unless you want to count sunset, which is still several hours away. Equally disquieting, in its way, is the odd fact that moderately large birds keep smashing themselves to a pulp against the aircraft’s windows. For one thing, the animals’ behavior is just plain freaky, and for another, what happens if an albatross or a pelican or something else big enough to do damage decides to take a death-dive into the cockpit windscreen? And then there’s the message that comes in on the radio from ground control, reporting that the Tokyo police have received a letter from somebody claiming to have planted a bomb aboard flight 307. Sugisaka and a stewardess by the name of Kuzumi Asakura head back into the cabin and ask to look into everybody’s luggage. Their cover story— that a bag belonging to someone not on the flight was brought onboard by mistake— isn’t terribly convincing, but I gather that Japanese air travelers in the late 1960’s were, on average, rather more trusting than their American counterparts today. This is not to say that a few passengers don’t make a fuss, mind you. In particular, Tokuyasu, the sycophantic arms manufacturer who is accompanying Diet Representative Mano on some manner of business, takes noisy exception to the idea of a respected politician having his bags searched. The real problems don’t begin, however, until Sugisaka reaches the man at the very back of the plane . This is not because he’s the bomber, although he certainly is a terrorist. In fact, he’s the sniper who just recently shot the British ambassador to Japan, and when Asakura finds his rifle hidden in the compartment just aft of the main cabin, all hell breaks loose. Turns out the sniper has a pistol, too, and he marches Sugisaka and Asakura to the cockpit at gunpoint. Once there, he smashes the radio and orders the pilot to change course for Okinawa. But just then comes the biggest disruption yet— a glowing, orange UFO buzzes the plane at a distance of only a couple hundred feet, the instruments all go dead, and one of the engines flames out. Though the pilot’s skill is such that the aircraft remains mostly intact when it comes to a stop in an arid valley a considerable distance off of its intended route, the shock of the crash kills all but a handful of the passengers and crew members… | |
| Details: Country: Japan Language: English, Japanese Also know as: Goke the Vampire, Vampire Gokemidoro, Distruggete DC 59, da base spaziale a Hong Kong, Body Snatcher from Hell, Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell, Goke – Vampir aus dem Weltall, | |
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