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The poster for the movie.

Status: Partially Found

The Golden Bat Is Here! Also known as Here Comes Golden Bat or The Golden Bat Shows Up^[1] (Ôgon Batto ga Yattekuru), is a comedy film released on May 13th, 1972 by Toho Studios. Very little information on the film survives as despite being produced by a studio as large as Toho^[2], the film has never been released on VHS or DVD and airings of it were incredibly scarce and nonexistent.

Plot

Very little information on the plot of the film exists online, with most summaries simply stating that the film focuses on the titular hero and his origins. However, multiple sources claim that the film portrayed Golden Bat as being "fat and incompetent".^[3]^[4]^[5]

Cast

	Keiju Kobayashi	...	Tokuhei Kyojima
	Kazuko Ichikawa	...	Kiyoko
	Takuya Fujioka	...	Yoshikichi Kanno
	Shôichi Ozawa	...	Seitaro Marukawa
	Tanie Kitabayashi
	Hiroshi Ishikawa	...	Toru Katayama
	Junpei Natsuki
	Wataru Ômae	...	Matsuno
	Naoya Kusakawa	...	Detective
Additional:
	Shôichi Hirose
	Mitsuyo Inomata	...	Ukifune
	Tomiko Ishii	...	Masako
	Saburô Kadowaki	...	Detective
	Sanae Kitabayashi	...	Gin
	Sanji Kojima	...	Shimizu
	Yasuzô Ogawa	...	Toyoshima
	Hiroyuki Satake
	Haruo Suzuki
	Chôei Takahashi	...	Shigeo Saeki
	Tadayoshi Ueda	...	Kondo
	Sakae Umezu	...	Mishima
	Kôji Uno
	Tamami Urayama	...	Waitress
	Kôji Uruki
	Michiyo Yamazoe
	Kosen Yanagiya	...	Bainin

Availability

No known releases of the film exist, with the only footage that exists of it being roughly two minutes taken from a VHS recording of the film on TV. This footage was uploaded on its own in the past, but as of now the upload was removed and the only footage that survives is in Kenny Lauderdale's video on the history of Golden Bat.^[6] It's possible a copy still exists within Toho's archives, but a statement either way has never been made.

Gallery

↑ https://www.flickr.com/photos/bekon/62434665
↑ Takaki, Junzo; Matsunomoto, Kazuhiro; Nakamura, Satoshi; Motoyama, Sho; Tsuchiya, Rieko (1999). The Godzilla Chronicles(in Japanese) (3rd ed.). Takeshobo. p. 169. ISBN 4-8124-0581-5.
↑ http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/o/ogonbat.htm
↑ http://calvinscanadiancaveofcool.blogspot.com/2014/11/golden-bat-japans-first-superhero.html
↑ http://tarstarkas.net/2013/10/the-golden-bat/
↑ https://youtu.be/6ExePeYkGwA?si=XfYaWlRsNNPfD5rU

[1] ttps://www.flickr.com/photos/bekon/62434665

[2] Takaki, Junzo; Matsunomoto, Kazuhiro; Nakamura, Satoshi; Motoyama, Sho; Tsuchiya, Rieko (1999). The Godzilla Chronicles(in Japanese) (3rd ed.). Takeshobo. p. 169. ISBN 4-8124-0581-5.

[3] ttp://www.internationalhero.co.uk/o/ogonbat.htm

[4] ttp://calvinscanadiancaveofcool.blogspot.com/2014/11/golden-bat-japans-first-superhero.html

[5] ttp://tarstarkas.net/2013/10/the-golden-bat/

[6] ttps://youtu.be/6ExePeYkGwA?si=XfYaWlRsNNPfD5rU

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 ==Availability==
-No known releases of the film exist, with the only footage that exists of it being roughly two minutes taken from a VHS recording of the film on TV. This footage was uploaded on its own in the past, but as of now the upload was removed and the only footage that survives is in Kenny Lauderdale's video on the history of Golden Bat.<ref>https://youtu.be/6ExePeYkGwA?si=XfYaWlRsNNPfD5rU</ref> It's possible an copy still exists within Toho's archives, but a statement either way has never been made.
+No known releases of the film exist, with the only footage that exists of it being roughly two minutes taken from a VHS recording of the film on TV. This footage was uploaded on its own in the past, but as of now the upload was removed and the only footage that survives is in Kenny Lauderdale's video on the history of Golden Bat.<ref>https://youtu.be/6ExePeYkGwA?si=XfYaWlRsNNPfD5rU</ref> It's possible a copy still exists within Toho's archives, but a statement either way has never been made.
 ==Gallery==