Varan the Unbelievable (1962)
From a world below, it came to terrorize - to destroy - to revenge!
- Released
- Runtime 1h 10m
- Director Jerry A. Baerwitz
- Genres Horror Science Fiction
- Rating 4.4/10 (32 votes)
Synopsis
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.
Cast
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Myron Healey
as Cmdr. James Bradley
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Tsuruko Kobayashi
as Anna
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Clifford Kawada
as Capt. Kishi
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Derick Shimatsu
as Matsu, the boy
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Koreya Senda
as Dr. Sugimoto
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Kōzō Nomura
as Paul Isoh
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Ayumi Sonoda
as Shidori Isoh
- Fumito Matsuo as Paul's Friend
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Akihiko Hirata
as Dr. Fujimora
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Fuyuki Murakami
as Dr. Majima
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Yoshio Tsuchiya
as Military Officer Katsumoto
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Minosuke Yamada
as Secretary of Defense
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Hisaya Ito
as Ichiro
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Yoshibumi Tajima
as Captain of Uranami
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Nadao Kirino
as Yutaka Wada
- Akira Sera as Village High Priest
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Akio Kusama
as Military Officer Kusama
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Noriko Honma
as Ken's Mom
Crew
- Jerry A. Baerwitz Director
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Ishirō Honda
Director
- Jacques R. Marquette Director of Photography
- Rudolph Cusumano Editor
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Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer
- Jerry A. Baerwitz Producer
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Shinichi Sekizawa
Screenplay
- Sid Harris Screenplay
