Varan (1958)
大怪獣バラン
A giant monster greater than Godzilla or Rodan!
When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, who decides to leave the valley and head straight for Tokyo.
- Date of release
- 1958-10-14
- TMDB
- 5.8 / 10 (38)
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Horror
- Director
- Ishirō Honda
Casting
- Kōzō Nomura — Kenji Uozaki
- Ayumi Sonoda — Yuriko Shinjô
- Koreya Senda — Dr. Sugimoto
- Akihiko Hirata — Dr. Fujimora
- Fuyuki Murakami — Dr. Majima
- Yoshio Tsuchiya — Military Officer Katsumoto
- Minosuke Yamada — Secretary of Defense
- Hisaya Ito — Ichiro
- Yoshibumi Tajima — Captain of Uranami
- Nadao Kirino — Yutaka Wada
- Akira Sera — Village High Priest
- Akio Kusama — Military Officer Kusama
Recommended
- Rodan 1956 · ★ 6.5
- Gamera 2: Advent of Legion 1996 · ★ 7.5
- Godzilla 2000: Millennium 1999 · ★ 6.9
- Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris 1999 · ★ 7.4
- Godzilla vs. Megaguirus 2000 · ★ 6.7
- Attack on Titan II: End of the World 2015 · ★ 6.3
- Shin Godzilla 2016 · ★ 7.3
- Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla 2002 · ★ 7.5
- The War of the Gargantuas 1966 · ★ 6.3
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters 2019 · ★ 6.7
- Frankenstein Conquers the World 1965 · ★ 6.7
- Godzilla Minus One 2023 · ★ 7.6