Product Description: When a volcano erupts a deep-sea vessel full of scientists suffers damage and begins to lose control. To their rescue comes Captain MacKenzie (Joseph Cotton CITIZEN KANE) commander of Alpha a high-tech atomic submarine. The captain takes the crew to a secret underwater utopia called "Latitude Zero" that is dedicated to the preservation and protection of mankind. With a completely opposite agenda the evil Dr. Malic (Cesar Romero The Joker from TV's BATMAN) wishes to kidnap and experiment on the scientists in order to add to his roster of super-intelligent freak minions. Now it's up to Captain MacKenzie and his crew to save the day. Another Toho classic from the legendary Ishiro Honda (GODZILLA MATANGO) LATITUDE ZERO boasts an all-star cast that also includes Richard Jaeckel (GRIZZLY) and Linda Haynes (HUMAN EXPERIMENTS) and terrific model andspecial effects work. System Requirements:Run Time: 105 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY/FANTASY UPC: 631595071788 Manufacturer No: TSDVD0717
Finally, The Best From Toho I've waited more than 40 years to see this forgotten classic, This film boasts many "Best" awards, best transfer from film to Dvd, excellent crystal clear colours, superb dubbing unlike any in the history of Toho sci-fi's, a script cleaverly written for adults but not forgetting the kids, torn from todays newspaper headlines, when viewed on a giant screen plasma or Lcd with surround sound, filmed in cinemascope my god it is totally awesome, Thank you Tokyo Shock Thank you.
Back in time I saw this film when i was about 14. It was called "U4000-Panik unter dem Ozean" in german which has absolutely nothing to do with the english title or even the name of the submarine which is called "alpha". I looked for years and now finally it is on dvd.
The 2 disc version is a bit misleading, because on one disk there is the japanese version without subtitles and on the other cd the english version, there are hardly sone extras-but this is common for an old film like that.
The film itself is good, you fell totaly warped to your childhood back in time. i enjoyed it very much!
Attack of the 60's styles - Latitude Zero This movie is a great example of a variety of late 60's fashions, ideas, mixed with spy-movie derring-do. The visual effects for the flame and especially the part where the little bats attack the main characters are a bit cheesy.
However the actors (including some of the best Toho actors) carry the movie along well, even though there isn't a major kaiju in the movie.
The fortress of the villain Malic is really interesting from the variety of weapons and architectural styles you see in there.
Entertaining stuff.
Another 1960's Insane Japanese Gem Can you really rate these films on a 1 to 5 scale? They're all 5's in my book. This is a rather rare Japanese take on that whole "secret" place where everything is better located somewhere on earth, in this case latitude zero. This film is somewhat "normal" until the last 1/3 when it explodes in a burst of insanity right around the time Cesar Romero - in a wonderfully crazy scene only the Japanese can pull off, "creates" a griffin with a human brain. Miniatures galore - this time futuristic submarines; assorted monsters - a giant sized one (though small by Toho standards) and human-sized ones; explosions, explosions, explosions; Akira Ifukube score (not his best - lots of rehashed themes from earlier movies but it's still Ifukube); typically uneven but always way fun "old school" Eiji Tsburaya effects; directed by Ishiro "the keeper of the grain" Honda (Kurosawa's dubbed him this name when Honda was an assistant director working under him); an insane trippy plot. What can I say? Only saw this one once - on UHF TV many a moon ago. It never re-aired for some reason and just popped up on DVD this year. Beautiful transfer, and this rare film is really a treat for Tohophiles. Instead of dubbing, the Japanese actors (see if you can spot "Hiata" in a bit role) including "Miko's dad from Space Giants" all spoke English - didn't know a lick of what they were saying. Great stuff and a "must see". If you bothered to look up this obscure title on Amazon, ya know ya gotta.
Nice restoration....great looking film Wow, this is what i called restored. Great job. The movie looks like it was just made a few years ago. We have action, monsters, Cesar Romero as the bad guy...he's good at that and so many things that makes this movie enjoyable to the end. It looks better now than when i saw it ...many many years ago. Its a Keeper. Enjoy
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