Varan the Unbelievable
Varan the Unbelievable

Movie·1962·1h 10m

Varan the Unbelievable

From a world below, it came to terrorize - to destroy - to revenge!

Directed By

Ishirō Honda

Country

United States of America

Language

Japanese

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The Story

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.

Written By

Sid Harris, Shinichi Sekizawa

Producer

Jerry A. Baerwitz, Tomoyuki Tanaka

Cinematography

Jacques R. Marquette

Editor

Rudolph Cusumano

Themes

monstergiant monsteralternate versionkaijugiantmonster moviedaikaijutokusatsu

Production House

Cory Film Corporation
Dallas Production Inc.
Crown International Pictures
TOHO

Audience Score

44%

33 votes

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Timepass48%
Go for it25%
Perfection7%

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Region: US

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Cast

Myron Healey

Myron Healey

Cmdr. James Bradley

Tsuruko Kobayashi

Tsuruko Kobayashi

Anna

Clifford Kawada

Clifford Kawada

Capt. Kishi

Derick Shimatsu

Derick Shimatsu

Matsu, the boy

Koreya Senda

Koreya Senda

Dr. Sugimoto

Kōzō Nomura

Kōzō Nomura

Paul Isoh

Ayumi Sonoda

Ayumi Sonoda

Shidori Isoh

Fumito Matsuo

Paul's Friend

Akihiko Hirata

Akihiko Hirata

Dr. Fujimora

Fuyuki Murakami

Fuyuki Murakami

Dr. Majima

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Military Officer Katsumoto

Minosuke Yamada

Minosuke Yamada

Secretary of Defense

Hisaya Ito

Hisaya Ito

Ichiro

Yoshibumi Tajima

Yoshibumi Tajima

Captain of Uranami

Nadao Kirino

Nadao Kirino

Yutaka Wada

Akira Sera

Village High Priest

Akio Kusama

Akio Kusama

Military Officer Kusama

Noriko Honma

Noriko Honma

Ken's Mom

// crew

Crew

Jerry A. Baerwitz

Director, Producer

Sid Harris

Screenplay

Ken Kuronuma

Ken Kuronuma

Story

Shinichi Sekizawa

Shinichi Sekizawa

Screenplay

Tomoyuki Tanaka

Tomoyuki Tanaka

Producer

Jacques R. Marquette

Director of Photography

Rudolph Cusumano

Editor

Ishirō Honda

Ishirō Honda

Director

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