Varan the Unbelievable (1962)
From a world below, it came to terrorize - to destroy - to revenge!
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.
- Date of release
- 1962-12-07
- TMDB
- 4.5 / 10 (33)
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Genres
- Horror, Science Fiction
- Director
- Jerry A. Baerwitz, Ishirō Honda
Casting
- Myron Healey — Cmdr. James Bradley
- Tsuruko Kobayashi — Anna
- Clifford Kawada — Capt. Kishi
- Derick Shimatsu — Matsu, the boy
- Koreya Senda — Dr. Sugimoto
- Kōzō Nomura — Paul Isoh
- Ayumi Sonoda — Shidori Isoh
- Fumito Matsuo — Paul's Friend
- Akihiko Hirata — Dr. Fujimora
- Fuyuki Murakami — Dr. Majima
- Yoshio Tsuchiya — Military Officer Katsumoto
- Minosuke Yamada — Secretary of Defense
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