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==Availability== | ==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 | 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== | ==Gallery== |
Revision as of 10:11, 7 May 2024
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