Directed by Ishirō Honda
Starring Akira Kubo · Kumi Mizuno · Hiroshi Koizumi · Kenji Sahara
Original language: Japanese
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Can you survive the madness and terror of Matango?
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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Cast
- Akira KuboKenji Murai - Professor
- Kumi MizunoMami Sekiguchi - Singer
- Hiroshi KoizumiNaoyuki Sakuta - Skipper
- Kenji SaharaSenzô Koyama - Sailor
- Hiroshi TachikawaEtsurô Yoshida - Writer
- Yoshio TsuchiyaMasafumi Kasai - Owner
- Miki YashiroAkiko Sôma - Student
- Hideyo AmamotoTransitional Matango
Details
- Directed by
- Ishirō Honda
- Written by
- Takeshi Kimura, Masami Fukushima, Shinichi Hoshi, William Hope Hodgson
- Released
- 1963-08-11
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
