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Matango (マタンゴ) is a 1963 Japanese horror film directed by Ishirō Honda. The film stars Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno and Kenji Sahara. It is partially based on William Hope Hodgson 's short story "The Voice in the Night" and is about a group of castaways on an island who are unwittingly altered by a local species of mutagenic mushrooms.
- August 11, 1963 (Japan)
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
Matango: Directed by Ishirô Honda. With Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kenji Sahara. Shipwrecked survivors slowly transform into mushrooms.
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- Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Hiroshi Koizumi
Feb 20, 2024 · Matango (マタンゴ, Matango) is a mutant fungus kaiju that appeared in the 1963 Toho film Matango. A species of fungus native to a remote island in the South Pacific, the Matango were mutated by the radiation from nuclear tests conducted in the area.
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Mar 4, 2024 · Matango (マタンゴ Matango) is a 1963 tokusatsu horror film directed by Ishiro Honda and written by Takeshi Kimura from a story by Shinichi Hoshi and Masami Fukushima, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced by Toho, it is a loose adaptation of the 1907 short story "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson.
Starring Hiroshi Koizumi, Kumi Mizuno, Kenji Sahara. Leaving behind the kaiju genre for which he was best known, Ishiro Honda took a detour into hallucinogenic science fiction with this disturbing psychological survival thriller that stands as perhaps the director’s darkest and most complex work.
Matango - Fungus of Terror. Release Date. 1963. Production Company. Toho Company Ltd. Technical Specs. Duration. 1h 29m. Sound. Mono. Color (Eastmancolor) Theatrical Aspect Ratio. 2.35 : 1. TCM Emails. A group of pleasure-seeking young people are stranded on a mysterious island when their boat crashes.
MATANGO (aka ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE) is a surprisingly low key atmospheric Japanese horror fantasy. The film is a bit slowly paced at times and too much time is spent on the castaways bickering amongst themselves. There are some elements that I suspect were better developed in the novel.
