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| 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 |
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| 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.
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
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| 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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