Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman (1958) [N/A]

Release Date:
December 1, 1958

Original Title:
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman

Genres:
Horror | Science Fiction

Production Companies:
Distributors Corporation of America (DCA)
TOHO
Toho Laboratory

Production Countries:
Japan | United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 63

1400 pounds of frozen fury that moves like man! Half-man, half-beast but all monster!

An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote tribe as a god, and how it was discovered by modern man after it raided a skiers shelter following an avalanche, killing all inside. This is an adaptation of the Japanese film "Jūjin Yuki Otoko" (1955) with added American-made footage, narration, and music.

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Art Direction:
Nicolai Remisoff
Tatsuo Kita

Assistant Director:
Hal Klein

Associate Producer:
Robert B. Homel
Minoru Sakamoto

Casting:
Lynn Stalmaster

Costume Design:
Teizô Toshimitsu
Fuminori Ōhashi
Eizo Kaimai

Director:
Kenneth G. Crane
Ishirō Honda

Director of Photography:
Lucien N. Andriot
Tadashi Iimura

Editor:
Kenneth G. Crane
Shûichi Anbara

First Assistant Director:
Kihachi Okamoto

Lighting Technician:
Soichi Yokoi

Modeling:
Eizo Kaimai
Fuminori Ōhashi
Teizô Toshimitsu

Original Music Composer:
Masaru Satō

Original Story:
Shigeru Kayama

Producer:
Tomoyuki Tanaka

Production Design:
Tatsuo Kita

Production Manager:
Tatsuo Kuroda

Property Master:
Sam Heiligman

Screenplay:
Takeo Murata

Script Supervisor:
Frances Steens

Sculptor:
Teizô Toshimitsu

Sound:
Jack Wiler

Sound Effects:
Ichirô Minawa

Sound Recordist:
Yoshio Nishikawa

Special Effects:
Eiji Tsuburaya
Hiroshi Mukoyama
Masao Shirota
Sadamasa Arikawa
Sadao Iizuka
Masakatsu Asai

Special Effects Assistant:
Yoshio Irie
Yasuyuki Inoue
Masakatsu Asai

Still Photographer:
Goichi Araki

VFX Director of Photography:
Sadamasa Arikawa

Visual Effects:
Eiji Tsuburaya
Masakatsu Asai
Shuzaburo Araki

Visual Effects Art Director:
Akira Watanabe
Yoshio Irie
Yasuyuki Inoue

Visual Effects Camera:
Shuzaburo Araki

Visual Effects Director:
Eiji Tsuburaya
Masakatsu Asai

Wardrobe Supervisor:
Morrie Friedman

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