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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. ...
Matango: Directed by Ishirô Honda. With Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kenji Sahara. Shipwrecked survivors slowly transform into mushrooms.
Mar 2, 2007 · Trailer for the film "Matango" (1963) AKA "Attack of the Mushroom People" AKA "Fungus of Terror".
Jul 22, 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.
May 16, 2023 · A truly bizarre movie. Man (and women) eating mushrooms! "Rare media" did a beautiful 4k upscale, but the audio was in Japanese. I re-coded it using the dubbed English soundtrack synced as well as I could but my output is limited to 1080p.
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...
Jul 20, 2006 · The 2005 Media Blasters dvd release of Matango (1963) bills the film as "one of the strangest and most horrific TOHO productions to date." The film is actually much more than that; an overlooked gem with rich atmosphere that makes great use of its Technicolor TohoScope 2.35:1 widescreen canvas and fills it with moist textures and interesting colors that are not bright but appropriately varied ...
Directed by Ishiro Honda • 1963 • Japan 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.
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...
Staff: Cast: Directed by Ishiro Honda Writing credits Masami Fukushima, William Hope Hodgson, Shinichiro Hoshi, Takeshi Kimura Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka Music by Sadao Bekku Cinematography by Hajime Koizumi Film Editing by Reiko Kaneko Production Design by Juichi Ikuno, Akira Watanabe
