Matango (1963)
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...
- Released
- 1963-08-11
- Genres
- Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Fantasy
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Takeshi Kimura, Ishirō Honda
- TMDB rating
- 6.7/10 from 108 votes
Cast
- Akira Kubo as Kenji Murai - Professor
- Kumi Mizuno as Mami Sekiguchi - Singer
- Hiroshi Koizumi as Naoyuki Sakuta - Skipper
- Kenji Sahara as Senzô Koyama - Sailor
- Hiroshi Tachikawa as Etsurô Yoshida - Writer
- Yoshio Tsuchiya as Masafumi Kasai - Owner
- Miki Yashiro as Akiko Sôma - Student
- Hideyo Amamoto as Transitional Matango
- Takuzō Kumagai as Doctor (as Jiro Kumagai)
- Akio Kusama as Police Personnel
- Yutaka Oka as Doctor
- Keisuke Yamada as Doctor