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Varan the Unbelievable (1962)

Varan the Unbelievable (1962)

Science Fiction Horror

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

Release Date: 1962, December 7
Directors: Ishirō Honda, Jerry A. Baerwitz
Countries: Japan, United States of America
Production: Cory Film Corporation, Dallas Production Inc., Crown International Pictures, TOHO
Cast: Yoshio Tsuchiya, Noriko Honma, Hideo Shibuya, Shōichi Hirose, Akio Kusama, Haruo Nakajima, Akira Yamada, Yoshikazu Kawamata, George Sasaki, Yoshibumi Tajima, Kōzō Nomura, Minosuke Yamada

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

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