Matango

1963 · directed by Ishirō Honda

Rating
66/100
Hit
no

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...

Matango (1963), directed by Ishirō Honda, rates 66/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

  • Akira Kubo
  • Kumi Mizuno
  • Hiroshi Koizumi
  • Kenji Sahara
  • Hiroshi Tachikawa
  • Yoshio Tsuchiya
  • Miki Yashiro
  • Hideyo Amamoto
  • Takuzō Kumagai
  • Akio Kusama

Crew

  • Hajime Koizumi — Director of Photography
  • Reiko Kaneko — Editor
  • Sadao Bekku — Original Music Composer
  • Takeshi Kimura — Screenplay

More from Ishirō Honda

  1. Godzilla (1954) — 80/100 · hit
  2. Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) — 77/100
  3. Destroy All Monsters (1968) — 73/100
  4. Mothra (1961) — 73/100
  5. Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) — 71/100
  6. Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) — 68/100

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