| The Human Vapor | |
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| Credits | |
| Title: | The Human Vapor |
| Director: | Ishirô Honda |
| Writers: | Takeshi Kimura |
| Producers: | Tomoyuki Tanaka; Edward L. Alperson; Stanley D. Meyer |
| Composer: | Kunio Miyauchi; Paul Sawtell |
| Cinematography: | Hajime Koizumi |
| Editors: | Kazuji Taira |
| Production | |
| Distributed by: | Toho Company, Ltd. Brenco Pictures Company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Released: | December 11th, 1960 |
| Rating: | Unrated |
| Running time: | 81 min. |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
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The Human Vapor (Gasu ningen dai 1 gô) is a Japanese feature film of the science fiction genre. It was directed by Ishirô Honda with a screenplay written by Takeshi Kimura. It was produced by Toho Company and premiered in Japan on December 11th, 1960. The movie was distributed in the United States by Brenco Pictures Company and MGM on May 20th, 1964.
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Tatsuya Mihashi | Detective Okamoto |
| Kaoru Yachigusa | Fujichiyo Kasuga |
| Yoshio Tsuchiya | Mizuno, the Vapor Man |
| Keiko Sata | Reporter Kyoko |
| Hisaya Ito | Police sergeant |
| Yoshifumi Tajima | Sergeant |
| Yoshio Kosugi | Mean detective |
| Fuyuki Murakami | Doctor Sano |
| Bokuzen Hidari | Jiya |
| Takamuru Sasaki | Police chief |
| Minosuke Yamada | Official |
| Tatsuo Matsumura | Editor Ikeda |
| Yôyô Miyata | Bank manager |
| Ko Mishima | Detective Fujita |
| Kozo Nomura | Reporter |
| Ren Yamamoto | Nomura the robber |
| Somesho Matsumoto | Fujichiyo's teacher |
| Yasuhisa Tsutsumi | Bank manager |
| Akira Yamada | Man in library |
| Shôichi Hirose | Doomed burly guard |
Notes & Trivia[]
- The original Japanese release name for this film is Gasu ningen dai 1 gô, which redirects to this page. The movie was re-named as The Human Vapor for the 1964 U.S. release.
- The tagline to this film is "Half Human! Half Beast! It Destroys! It Kills!"
- There are sixty credited cast members in this film.
- A soundtrack for The Human Vapor was produced by SLC and released in 1995. It was also included as part of a three-disc set by Toho Music in 2012, which also featured music from The H-Man and The Secret of the Telegian.
- In U.S. releases of the film, The Human Vapor was often double-billed along with Gorath.
- This is the second film with a score composed by Kunio Miyauchi. He previously worked on Kyôsaitô sôsai ni eikô are, also released in 1960.
- In the U.S. release, the original film score by Kunio Miyauchi is replaced with a score originally composed by Paul Sawtell for the 1958 film The Fly.
- The Brenco release of The Human Vapor re-edits footage so that Mizuno becomes the point of view character. Three minutes of footage from the Japanese version are excised for the U.S. version.
- Actor James Hong provided the voice for Mizuno in the English-dubbed version.