Matango (1963)
Can you survive the madness and terror of Matango?
89 min
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...
- Release date
- August 11, 1963
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Music
- Sadao Bekku
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Cast
- Akira Kubo as Kenji Murai - Professor
- Kumi Mizuno as Mami Sekiguchi - Singer
- Hiroshi Koizumi as Naoyuki Sakuta - Skipper
- Kenji Sahara as Senzô Koyama - Sailor
- Hiroshi Tachikawa as Etsurô Yoshida - Writer
- Yoshio Tsuchiya as Masafumi Kasai - Owner
- Miki Yashiro as Akiko Sôma - Student
- Hideyo Amamoto as Skulking Transitional Matango
- Takuzô Kumagai as Doctor
- Akio Kusama as Police Personnel
- Yutaka Oka as Doctor
- Katsumi Tezuka as Police Personnel
- Haruo Nakajima as Matango
- Kôji Uruki as Matango
- Toku Ihara as Transitional Matango
- Yoshio Katsube as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Crew
- Ishirō Honda · Director
- Takeshi Kimura · Writer
- Shin'ichi Hoshi · Writer
- Masami Fukushima · Writer
- William Hope Hodgson · Writer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka · Producer
- Sadao Bekku · Composer
- Hajime Koizumi · Cinematographer
- Reiko Kaneko · Editor
- Shigekazu Ikuno · Production designer