Matango

From The Grindhouse Cinema Database

Main Details

  • Released on August 11, 1963 (Japan)
  • Color
  • Running Time: 89 Min.
  • Production and Distribution Co: Toho Studios
  • Directed by Ishirō Honda
  • Written by Masami Fukushima, William Hope Hodgson, Shinichi Hoshi, Takeshi Kimura, Sakyo Komatsu
  • Starring Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Hiroshi Koizumi
  • Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka
  • Original Music by Sadao Bekku
  • Cinematography by Hajime Koizumi
  • Film Editing by Reiko Kaneko

Plot Summary

  • Shipwrecked survivors slowly transform into mushrooms.

Also Known As

  • Attack of the Mushroom People (USA) (TV title)
  • Curse of the Mushroom People
  • Fungus of Terror
  • Matango il mostro (Italy)
  • Matango the Fungus of Terror
  • Matango: Fungus of Terror
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