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Matango is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Ishirō Honda released in USA on 11 august 1963 with Akira Kubo
Matango (1963)
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Add to a movie listMatango (マタンゴ), also known as Fungus of Terror, Curse of the Mushroom People and Attack of the Mushroom People, is a 1963 Japanese tokusatsu movie. It was directed by Ishirō Honda, and written by Takeshi Kimura based on the story "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson (an adaptation credit is given to Masami Fukushima and Shinichi Hoshi, but Kimura threw out most of their contributions). Special effects were by Eiji Tsuburaya.
The movie has developed a cult audience over the years, partly due to its bleakness and unusual themes, particularly when compared to other Japanese fantasy and science fiction films of the same period (with the exception of Honda's 1960 film The Human Vapor).
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The movie begins in Tokyo, where a man travels to visit a professor who is being held in the psychiatric ward of a hospital. He tells the man that what happened to him sounded crazy but that he in fact was not insane.Actors
Akira Kubo
(Kenji Murai - Professor)
Kumi Mizuno
(Mami Sekiguchi - Singer)
Hiroshi Koizumi
(Naoyuki Sakuta - Skipper)
Kenji Sahara
(Senzô Koyama - Sailor)
Yoshio Tsuchiya
(Masafumi Kasai - Owner)
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