Matango (1963)
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Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they try to live in a fungus covered hulk while repairing Kessei's yacht. Eventually they struggle over the food rations which were left behind by the former crew. Soon they discover something unfriendly there...
Director:
Ishirō Honda
Writer:
Takeshi Kimura
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Akira Kubo as Kenji Murai - Professor |
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Kumi Mizuno as Mami Sekiguchi - Singer |
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Hiroshi Koizumi as Naoyuki Sakuta - Skipper |
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Kenji Sahara as Senzô Koyama - Sailor |
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Hiroshi Tachikawa as Etsurô Yoshida - Writer |
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Yoshio Tsuchiya as Masafumi Kasai - Owner |
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Miki Yashiro as Akiko Sôma - Student |
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Hideyo Amamoto as Transitional Matango |
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Takuzō Kumagai as Doctor (as Jiro Kumagai) |
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Akio Kusama as Police Personnel |
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Yutaka Oka as Doctor |
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Keisuke Yamada as Doctor |
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Kazuo Hinata as Police Personnel |
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Katsumi Tezuka as Police Personnel |
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Haruo Nakajima as Matango |
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Tokio Ôkawa as Matango |
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Kōji Uruki as Matango |
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Masaki Shinohara as Matango |
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Kuniyoshi Kashima as Transitional Matango |
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Toku Ihara as Transitional Matango |
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Mitsuko Hayashi as Nurse |
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Tsurue Ichimanji as Nurse |
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Saburô Iketani as Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited) |
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Yoshio Katsube as Nightclub Patron (uncredited) |
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Hideo Shibuya as Nightclub Staff (uncredited) |
| Directing | Ishirō Honda | Director |
| Writing | Takeshi Kimura | Screenplay |
| Sound | Fumio Yanoguchi | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Minoru Kaneyama | Sound Effects |
| Sound | Sadao Bekku | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Hajime Koizumi | Director of Photography |
| Art | Shigekazu Ikuno | Production Design |
| Editing | Reiko Kaneko | Editor |
| Sound | Hisashi Shimonaga | Sound Mixer |
| Production | Shigeru Nakamura | Production Manager |
| Visual Effects | Eiji Tsuburaya | Visual Effects |
| Writing | William Hope Hodgson | Short Story |
| Writing | Takeshi Kimura | Adaptation |
| Writing | Shinichi Hoshi | Story |
| Writing | Masami Fukushima | Story |
| Directing | Koji Kajita | First Assistant Director |
| Production | Tomoyuki Tanaka | Executive Producer |
| Crew | Eiji Tsuburaya | Special Effects |
| Visual Effects | Eiji Tsuburaya | Visual Effects Director |
| Crew | Teruyoshi Nakano | Special Effects |
| Crew | Teruyoshi Nakano | Special Effects Assistant |
| Visual Effects | Teruyoshi Nakano | Visual Effects |
| Visual Effects | Teruyoshi Nakano | Visual Effects Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Teizô Toshimitsu | Costume Design |
| Visual Effects | Teizô Toshimitsu | Modeling |
| Costume & Make-Up | Eizo Kaimai | Costume Design |
| Visual Effects | Eizo Kaimai | Modeling |
| Visual Effects | Keizô Murase | Modeling |
| Costume & Make-Up | Keizô Murase | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Keizô Murase | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Shigeru Komatsuzaki | Costume Design |
| Crew | Sadamasa Arikawa | Special Effects |
| Visual Effects | Sadamasa Arikawa | VFX Director of Photography |
| Crew | Akira Watanabe | Visual Effects Art Director |
| Visual Effects | Tadashi Koike | Visual Effects Production Manager |
| Lighting | Seishichi Kojima | Lighting Technician |
| Lighting | Kuichiro Kishida | Gaffer |
| Visual Effects | Kuichiro Kishida | VFX Lighting Artist |
| Crew | Motoyoshi Tomioka | Special Effects |
| Visual Effects | Motoyoshi Tomioka | VFX Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Yukio Manoda | Visual Effects |
| Visual Effects | Yukio Manoda | Visual Effects Camera |
| Visual Effects | Yoshiyuki Tokumasa | Visual Effects |
| Visual Effects | Yoshiyuki Tokumasa | Visual Effects Camera |
| Visual Effects | Hiroshi Mukoyama | Visual Effects |
| Visual Effects | Hiroshi Mukoyama | Visual Effects Compositor |
| Crew | Yasuyuki Inoue | Special Effects Assistant |
| Crew | Yasuyuki Inoue | Visual Effects Art Director |
| Crew | Jiro Shirasaki | Special Effects Assistant |
| Crew | Jiro Shirasaki | Visual Effects Art Director |
| Visual Effects | Sadao Iizuka | Visual Effects |
| Directing | Kunmei Takahashi | Assistant Director |
