Varan the Unbelievable (1962)
From a world below, it came to terrorize - to destroy - to revenge!
70 min
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.
- Release date
- December 7, 1962
- Country of origin
- United States, Japan
Cast
- Myron Healey as Cmdr. James Bradley
- Tsuruko Kobayashi as Anna
- Clifford Kawada as Capt,. Kishi
- Derick Shimatsu as Matsu, the boy
- Hideo Inamura as Doomed Soldier
- George Sasaki as Soldier
- Hiroshi Hisasume as Pvt. Seki
- Yoneo Iguchi as Radio Operator
- Michael Sung as Extra
- Roy K. Ogata as Extra
Crew
- Jerry A. Baerwitz · Director
- Sid Harris · Writer
- Jerry A. Baerwitz · Producer
- Akira Ifukube · Composer
- Jacques R. Marquette · Cinematographer
- Rudolph Cusumano · Editor
- Jack Ruggiero · Editor