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Matango (1963) [N/A]

Release Date:
August 11, 1963

Original Title:
マタンゴ

Alternate Titles:
Attack of the Mushroom People
Matango
Matango, A Ilha da Morte
Matango, Fungus of Terror
Matango, il Mostro
Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People

Genres:
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Science Fiction | Thriller

Production Companies:
TOHO
Tokyo Laboratory

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 89

Can you survive the madness and terror of Matango?

Overview from TheMovieDB

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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Production

Adaptation:
Takeshi Kimura

Costume Design:
Shigeru Komatsuzaki

Director:
Ishirō Honda

Director of Photography:
Hajime Koizumi

Editor:
Reiko Kaneko

Executive Producer:
Tomoyuki Tanaka

First Assistant Director:
Koji Kajita

Lighting Technician:
Seishichi Kojima

Original Music Composer:
Sadao Bekku

Production Design:
Shigekazu Ikuno

Production Manager:
Tadashi Koike
Shigeru Nakamura

Screenplay:
Takeshi Kimura

Short Story:
William Hope Hodgson

Sound Effects:
Minoru Kaneyama

Sound Mixer:
Hisashi Shimonaga

Sound Recordist:
Fumio Yanoguchi

Special Effects:
Eiji Tsuburaya
Akira Watanabe
Kaimai Eizo
Keizô Murase

Special Effects Assistant:
Teruyoshi Nakano

Special Effects Manager:
Shigeru Nakamura

Special Effects Supervisor:
Eiji Tsuburaya

Story:
Shinichi Hoshi
Masami Fukushima

Visual Effects:
Eiji Tsuburaya

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