Poster from TMDB
Matango
Sign in to saveAlso known as Attack of the Mushroom People
is a 1963 Japanese horror film directed by Ishirō Honda. The film stars Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno and Kenji Sahara. Partially based on William Hope Hodgson's short story "The Voice in the Night", it centers on a group of castaways on an island who are unwittingly altered by a local species of mutagenic mushrooms.
Film · TMDB
6.7Five 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...
Cast
- Akira Kubo as Kenji Murai - Professor
- Kumi Mizuno as Mami Sekiguchi - Singer
- Hiroshi Koizumi as Naoyuki Sakuta - Skipper
- Kenji Sahara as Senzô Koyama - Sailor
- Hiroshi Tachikawa as Etsurô Yoshida - Writer
- Yoshio Tsuchiya as Masafumi Kasai - Owner
Themes
- island
- monster
- mushroom
- greed
- psychiatric ward
- disfigurement
- shipwrecked
- lost island
- mushrooms
- fungus people
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Key facts
- Film.name
- Matango
- Film.image
- Matango 1963 poster.jpg
- Film.caption
- Theatrical release poster
- Film.director
- Ishirō Honda
- Film.producer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Film.screenplay
- Takeshi Kimura
- Film.story
- Shinichi HoshiMasami Fukushima
- Film.based_on
- "The Voice in the Night"by William Hope Hodgson
- Film.music
- Sadao Bekku
- Film.cinematography
- Hajime Koizumi
- Film.editing
- Reiko Kaneko
- Film.studio
- Toho Co., Ltd
- Film.distributor
- Toho
- Film.runtime
- 89 minutes
- Film.country
- Japan
- Film.language
- Japanese
via Wikipedia infobox
Internet Archive
moviesAttack of the Mushroom People (1963)
Watch at Internet Archive →via archive.org
Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 89
- FilmAffinity ID
- 756945
Show 3 more facts
- publication date
- 1963-08-11
- title
- Matango
- Commons category
- Matango
Sources (7)
via Wikidata · CC0
~15 min read
Article
14 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- Writing
- Filming
- Special effects
- Release
- Reception
- Aftermath and influence
- See also
- References
- Citations
- General and cited sources
- External links
is a 1963 Japanese horror film directed by Ishirō Honda. The film stars Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno and Kenji Sahara. Partially based on William Hope Hodgson's short story "The Voice in the Night", it centers on a group of castaways on an island who are unwittingly altered by a local species of mutagenic mushrooms.
Matango was different from Honda's other films of the period as it explored darker themes and featured a more desolate look. Upon the film's release in Japan, it was nearly banned due to scenes that depicted characters resembling victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Retrospective reviews generally commented on how the film varied from Honda's other work, with its darker tone.