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Matango
Matango - Attack of the Mushroom People
Credits
Title: Matango
Director: Ishirô Honda
Writers: Takeshi Kimura; Shin'ichi Hoshi; Masami Fukushima
Producers: Tomoyuki Tanaka
Composer: Sadao Bekku
Cinematography: Hajime Koizumi
Editors: Reiko Kaneko
Production
Distributed by: Toho Company, Ltd.
Released: August 11th, 1963
Rating: Unrated
Running time: 89 min.
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
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Matango, also known as Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People, is a Japanese feature film of the horror genre, with some elements of science fiction. It was directed by Ishirô Honda with a screenplay written by Takeshi Kimura. It was adapted from the story "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson. The adapted story was written by Shin'ichi Hoshi and Masami Fukushima. The movie was produced by Toho Company, Ltd. and released theatrically in Japan on August 11th, 1963. The premise of the film involves a group of castaways that get stranded on a tropical island exposed to mutant fungal life forms that slowly transforms those exposed to them into Mushroom People.

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Actor Role
Akira Kubo Kenji Murai
Kumi Mizuno Mami Sekiguchi
Hiroshi Koizumi Naoyuki Sakuta
Kenji Sahara Senzo Koyama
Hiroshi Tachikawa Etsuro Yoshida
Yoshio Tsuchiya Masafumi Kasai
Miki Yashiro Akiko Soma
Hideyo Amamoto Transitional Matango
Jirô Kumagai Doctor
Akio Kusama Police personnel
Yutaka Oka Doctor
Keisuke Yamada Doctor
Kazuo Hinata Police personnel
Katsumi Tezuka Police personnel
Haruo Nakajima Matango
Tokio Ôkawa Matango
Kôji Uruki Matango
Masaki Shinohara Matango
Kuniyoshi Kashima Transitional Matango
Toku Ihara Transitional Matango
Mitsuko Hayashi Nurse
Tazue Ichimanji Nurse

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