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Also known as Attack of the Mushroom People

film del 1963 diretto da Ishirō Honda

Film · TMDB

6.7

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...

Released: 1963-08-1189 minDir: Ishirō HondaHorror, Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Fantasy

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

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Ratings

IMDb

6.4/10

3,967 votes

Year
1963
Runtime
89 min
Genres
Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

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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

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Internet Archive

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Attack of the Mushroom People (1963)

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
film
Country of origin
Japan
Original language
English language
Screenwriter
Takeshi Kimura
Composer
Sadao Bekku
Production company
Toho
Duration
89
FilmAffinity ID
756945
Distribution format
video on demand
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publication date
1963-08-11
title
Matango
distributed by
Netflix
Commons category
Matango
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Article · Italiano

Matango il mostro (マタンゴ Matango?) è un film del 1963 diretto da Ishirō Honda. La pellicola di fantascienza, prodotta e distribuita dalla Toho, è liberamente tratta dal racconto (The Voice in the Night) di William Hope Hodgson.

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