Matango
1963
Can you survive the madness and terror of Matango?
Directed by Ishirō Honda
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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...
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- Director
- Ishirō Honda
- Written by
- Takeshi Kimura, Masami Fukushima, Shinichi Hoshi
- Composer
- Sadao Bekku
- Cinematographer
- Hajime Koizumi
- Editor
- Reiko Kaneko
- Studios
- TOHO, Tokyo Laboratory
- Origin country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Language
- Japanese
- Also known as
- Attack of the Mushroom People, Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People, Matango, Fungus of Terror
- TMDB
- 6.7/10 (105 votes)
- IMDb
- 6.4/10 (3,658 votes)
Cast
Akira Kubo
Kenji Murai - Professor
Kumi Mizuno
Mami Sekiguchi - Singer
Hiroshi Koizumi
Naoyuki Sakuta - Skipper
Kenji Sahara
Senzô Koyama - Sailor
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Etsurô Yoshida - Writer
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Masafumi Kasai - Owner
Miki Yashiro
Akiko Sôma - Student
Takuzō Kumagai
Doctor (as Jirô Kumagai) (uncredited)
Yutaka Oka
Doctor (uncredited)
Keisuke Yamada
Doctor (uncredited)
Akio Kusama
Police Personnel (uncredited)
Kazuo Higata
Police Personnel (uncredited)
Katsumi Tezuka
Police Personnel (uncredited)
Haruo Nakajima
Matango
Hideyo Amamoto
Skulking Transitional Matango (uncredited)
Tokio Ôkawa
Matango
Kōji Uruki
Matango
Masaki Shinohara
Matango
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