Matango (1963 film)
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| マタンゴ (Matango) | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ishiro Honda |
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Screenplay by | Takeshi Kimura |
| Based on | W. H. Hodgson's The Voice in the Night |
| Starring | Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kenji Sahara |
| Music by | Sadao Bekku |
| Cinematography | Hajime Koizumi |
| Edited by | Reiko Kaneko |
Production company |
TOHO (東宝株式会社) |
| Distributed by | TOHO |
Release date |
11 August 1963 (Japan) |
Running time |
89 min. |
| Language | Japanese |
Matango (Japanese: マタンゴ) is a Japanese tokusatsu kaiju horror film about mutagenic fungus monsters on an island in the South Pacific. Originally released in August 1963, the film was directed by Ishiro Honda (本多猪四郎) from a screenplay by Takeshi Kimura (木村 武), based on William Hope Hodgson's The Voice in the Night (1907).
Cast
- Akira Kubo as Professor Kenji Murai
- Kumi Mizuno as Mami Sekiguchi
- Kenji Sahara as Senzō Koyama
- Hiroshi Tachikawa as Etsurō Yoshida
- Yoshio Tsuchiya as Masafumi Kasai
- Hiroshi Koizumi as Naoyuki Sakuda
- Miki Yashiro as Akiko Sōma