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Latitude Zero (1969)

Latitude Zero poster
Original title
緯度0大作戦
Directed by
Ishirō Honda
Genre
science fiction film
Country
United States, Japan
Runtime
1h 48m
Rated
G
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 27 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A journalist and two scientists are rescued from a deep-sea disaster by a secret submarine. They are taken to an underwater utopia where a mad scientist plots world domination.

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What happens

Latitude Zero (緯度0大作戦, Ido Zero Daisakusen; lit. 'The Great Latitude 0 Operation') is a 1969 tokusatsu science fiction film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. An international co-production of Japan and the United States, it stars Joseph Cotten, Cesar Romero, Akira Takarada, Masumi Okada, Richard Jaeckel, Patricia Medina, Akihiko Hirata and Linda Haynes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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