Matango (1963)
HorrorScience FictionThrillerDramaMysteryFantasy
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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Takuzō Kumagai as Doctor (as Jirô Kumagai) (uncredited) |
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Yutaka Oka as Doctor (uncredited) |
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Keisuke Yamada as Doctor (uncredited) |
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Akio Kusama as Police Personnel (uncredited) |
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Kazuo Higata as Police Personnel (uncredited) |
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Katsumi Tezuka as Police Personnel (uncredited) |
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Haruo Nakajima as Matango |
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Hideyo Amamoto as Skulking Transitional Matango (uncredited) |
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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 (uncredited) |
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Toku Ihara as Transitional Matango (uncredited) |
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Mitsuko Hayashi as Nurse (uncredited) |
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Tsurue Ichimanji as Nurse (uncredited) |
| Directing | Ishirō Honda | Director |
| Writing | Takeshi Kimura | Screenplay |
| Visual Effects | Eiji Tsuburaya | Special Effects Supervisor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Shigeru Komatsuzaki | Costume Design |
| Crew | Eiji Tsuburaya | Special Effects |
| Production | Tadashi Koike | Production Manager |
| Crew | Keizô Murase | Special Effects |
| Crew | Kaimai Eizo | Special Effects |
| Crew | Shigeru Nakamura | Special Effects Manager |
| Sound | Fumio Yanoguchi | Sound Recordist |
| Crew | Akira Watanabe | Special Effects |
| 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 |
| Lighting | Seishichi Kojima | Lighting Technician |
| Crew | Teruyoshi Nakano | Special Effects Assistant |
| 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 |