Matango

Matango

89 mins | Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Fantasy | Aug. 11, 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...

Matango

89 mins | Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Fantasy | Aug. 11, 1963

Matango
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...
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Toho Company, Ltd.
Original title マタンゴ
Directors Kôji Kajita, Ishirō Honda
Writers William Hope Hodgson, Shinichi Hoshi, Masami Fukushima, Takeshi Kimura

Cast

Hiroshi Koizumi

as Naoyuki Sakuta - Skipper

Kumi Mizuno

as Mami Sekiguchi - Singer

Kenji Sahara

as Senzô Koyama - Sailor

Yoshio Tsuchiya

as Masafumi Kasai - Owner

Akira Kubo

as Kenji Murai - Professor

Hiroshi Tachikawa

as Etsurô Yoshida - Writer

Miki Yashiro

as Akiko Sôma - Student

Takuzō Kumagai

as Doctor (as Jirô Kumagai) (uncredited)

Yutaka Oka

as Doctor (uncredited)

Keisuke Yamada

as Doctor (uncredited)

Akio Kusama

as Police Personnel (uncredited)

Kazuo Higata

as Police Personnel (uncredited)

Katsumi Tezuka

as Police Personnel (uncredited)

Haruo Nakajima

as Matango

Hideyo Amamoto

as Skulking Transitional Matango (uncredited)

Tokio Ôkawa

as Matango

Kōji Uruki

as Matango

Masaki Shinohara

as Matango

Kuniyoshi Kashima

as Transitional Matango (uncredited)

Toku Ihara

as Transitional Matango (uncredited)

Mitsuko Hayashi

as Nurse (uncredited)

Tsurue Ichimanji

as Nurse (uncredited)