The Skin of the South (南国の肌, Nangoku no hada) is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Ishirō Honda.
The film crew includes Akira Watanabe as art director, Kentaro Kondo as lightning technician, sound recordist Yoshio Nishikawa and director of photography Kiyoe Kawamura.
, 1h28 Réalisé parIshirō Honda OrigineJapon GenresScience-fiction, Thriller, Action, Aventure ThèmesL'espace, La fin du monde, Kaijū, Magie, La mer, Transport, Monstre géant, Space opera, Film catastrophe ActeursRyō Ikebe, Yumi Shirakawa, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo, Haruo Nakajima, Kumi Mizuno Note57% The year is 1980, and the film opens with the launch of the JX-1 Hayabusa spaceship into outer space. The ship, originally sent to collect data on Saturn, has its course diverted to investigate the mysterious star Gorath, reported as being 6000 times the size of the Earth. It is feared that the star's path could come dangerously close to Earth. The JX-1 reaches locates Gorath and it's much smaller than earth but with 6000 times the gravity. The JX-1 radio's back any data about the star but gets sucked into the star's gravitational field which drags the ship into Gorath, incinerating it.