Film

Matango

1963 · 1h 29m · Horror · Science Fiction · Thriller

Can you survive the madness and terror of Matango?

IMDb

6.4

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...

Akira Kubo

Kenji Murai - Professor

Kumi Mizuno

Mami Sekiguchi - Singer

Hiroshi Koizumi

Naoyuki Sakuta - Skipper

Kenji Sahara

Senzô Koyama - Sailor

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Etsurô Yoshida - Writer

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Masafumi Kasai - Owner

Miki Yashiro

Akiko Sôma - Student

Hideyo Amamoto

Transitional Matango

Takuzō Kumagai

Doctor (as Jiro Kumagai)

Akio Kusama

Police Personnel

Yutaka Oka

Doctor

Keisuke Yamada

Doctor

Kazuo Hinata

Police Personnel

Katsumi Tezuka

Police Personnel

Haruo Nakajima

Matango

Tokio Ôkawa

Matango

• Ishirō HondaDirector
• Takeshi KimuraScreenplay
• Shinichi HoshiStory
• Masami FukushimaStory
• Tomoyuki TanakaExecutive Producer
• Hajime KoizumiDirector of Photography
• Sadao BekkuOriginal Music Composer
• Reiko KanekoEditor

Attack of the Mushroom People Official TrailerMatango (1963) trailer

Release date

August 11, 1963

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 29m

Genres

Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Fantasy

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