Varan the Unbelievable
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
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Varan the Unbelievable (1958, Japan) is a Kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda.
- Featured in: Toho Pack Box Set
- Included in: Colossal Creatures from Japan: Kaiju Cinema Classics
Main Details
- Released in 1958
- Color
- Running time: 87 min. | 70 min. (USA)
- Production Co: Toho
- Distribution Co: Toho | Crown International Pictures (USA)
- Directed by Ishirō Honda
- Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Written by Ken Kuronuma (story), Shinichi Sekizawa
- Starring Kôzô Nomura, Ayumi Sonoda, Fumito Matsuo
- Music by Akira Ifukube, Albert Glasser (USA)
- Cinematography by Hajime Koizumi,Teisho Arikawa,Jacques R. Marquette (USA)
- Edited by Kazuji Taira,Rudolph Cusumano (USA), Jack Ruggiero (USA)
Plot Summary
- Research in the Tohoku region comes across a monster known to the locals as the mountain god Baradagi.