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Matango
Japanese poster for Matango
Alternate titles
Flagicon United States.png Attack of the Mushroom People (TV 1965)
See alternate titles
Directed by Ishiro Honda
Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka
Written by Takeshi Kimura (Screenplay),
Shinichi Hoshi, Masami Fukashima (Original Story),
William Hope Hodgson (short story)
Music by Sadao Bekku
Distributor TohoJP,
American International TelevisionUS
Rating PGUS
Running time 89 minutesJP
(1 hour, 29 minutes)
88 minutesUS
(1 hour, 28 minutes)
Aspect ratio 2.55:1
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(15 votes)

Matango (マタンゴ) is a 1963 tokusatsu kaiju film produced by Toho, loosely based on the 1907 short story "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson. It was released to Japanese theaters on August 11, 1963.

Plot

Shipwrecked survivors slowly transform into mushrooms.

Staff

Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.

  • Directed by   Ishiro Honda
  • Screenplay by   Takeshi Kimura
  • Story Treatment by   Shinichi Hoshi, Masami Fukashima
  • Based on the short story "The Voice in the Night" by   William Hope Hodgson
  • Produced by   Tomoyuki Tanaka
  • Music by   Sadao Bekku
  • Cinematography   Hajime Koizumi
  • Edited by   Reiko Kaneko
  • Production Design by   Shigekazu Ikuno
  • Director of Special Effects   Eiji Tsuburaya
  • Assistant Director of Special Effects   Teruyoshi Nakano
  • Special Effect Photography by   Sadamasa Arikawa, Motoyoshi Tomioka
  • Optical Photography by   Yoichi Manoda, Yoshiyuki Tokusama
  • Art Direction by   Akira Watanabe
  • Lighting by   Kuichiro Kishida
  • Matte Processing by   Hiroshi Mukoyama
  • Production Management by   Tadashi Koike
  • Still Photography by   Issei Tanaka

Cast

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

  • Akira Kubo   as   Kenji Murai
  • Kumi Mizuno   as   Mami Sekiguchi
  • Hiroshi Koizumi   as   Naoyuki Sakuta
  • Kenji Sahara   as   Senzo Koyama
  • Hiroshi Tachikawa   as   Etsuro Yoshida
  • Yoshio Tsuchiya   as   Masafumi Kasai
  • Miki Yashiro   as   Akiko Soma
  • Hideyo Amamoto   as   Skulking Transitional Matango
  • Jiro Kumagai   as   Takuzo Kumagai
  • Akio Kusama   as   Police Personnel
  • Yutaka Oka   as   Doctor
  • Keisuke Yamada   as   Doctor
  • Kazuo Hinata   as   Police Personnel
  • Katsumi Tezuka   as   Police Personnel
  • Haruo Nakajima   as   Matango
  • Tokio Okawa   as   Matango
  • Koji Uruki   as   Matango
  • Masaki Shinohara   as   Matango
  • Kuniyoshi Kashima   as   Transitional Matango
  • Toku Ihara   as   Transitional Matango
  • Mitsuko Hayashi   as   Nurse
  • Tsurue Ichimanji   as   Tazue Ichimanji
  • Hiroshi Akitsu   as   Guest at club
  • Ryutaro Amami   as   Guest at club
  • Saburo Iketani   as   Voice of radio announcer
  • Yoshio Katsube   as   Guest at club
  • Hideo Shibuya   as   Staff at club

Appearances

Monsters

Gallery

Main article: Matango (film)/Gallery.

Soundtrack

Main article: Matango (Soundtrack).

Alternate Titles

  • Attack of the Mushroom People (United States)
  • Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People (U.S. DVD Title)
  • Matango, Fungus of Terror (United Kingdom)
  • Matango, the Monster (Matango, il Mostro; Italy)

Theatrical Releases

  • Japan - August 11, 1963
  • Thailand - 1964
  • Columbia - 1960s
  • United Kingdom - 1969
  • Italy - November 1973

U.S. Release

In 1965, American International Pictures released Matango directly to television as Attack of the Mushroom People, using Toho's international English dub recorded in Hong Kong. Aside from a shortened opening credit sequence, it was largely unedited. Used TV prints of this version found their way to public domain dealers who issued it on Betamax and VHS. In 2005, Media Blasters' Tokyo Shock label released the original Japanese version of the film on DVD under the title Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People.

Video Releases

Toho DVD (2003)

  • Region: 2
  • Discs: 1
  • Audio: Japanese
  • Subtitles: Japanese
  • Special Features: Audio commentary by actor Akira Kubo, interview with Teruyoshi Nakano (27 minutes), reading of the original treatment by writer Masami Fukushima (18 minutes), theatrical trailer

Media Blasters DVD (2005)[1]

  • Region: 1
  • Discs: 1
  • Audio: Japanese (2.0 Mono, 5.1 Surround), English (2.0 Mono, 5.1 Surround)
  • Subtitles: English
  • Special Features: Audio commentary by actor Akira Kubo, interview with Teruyoshi Nakano (27 minutes), reading of the original treatment by writer Masami Fukushima (18 minutes), trailers
  • Notes: Out of print. A 2007 release packages it with Varan and The Mysterians.

Videos

Trailers

Japanese Matango trailer
International Matango trailer

Miscellaneous

Original English end title

Trivia

  • Matango is the second adaptation of "A Voice in the Night." The first, simply titled "Voice in the Night," was the 24th episode of the 1957-58 NBC anthology series Suspicion.
  • American director Steven Soderbergh discussed remaking Matango with Toho, but was unable to reach an agreement with the studio.[2]
  • The giant mushrooms that the characters eat were created by the special effects crew from rice pastry.

External Links

References

This is a list of references for Matango (film). These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

Films
 
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King Kong films
King Kong (1933) • Son of Kong (1933) • King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) • King Kong Escapes (1967) • King Kong (1976) • King Kong Lives (1986) • The Mighty Kong (1998) • Kong: King of Atlantis (2005) • King Kong (2005) • Kong: Return to the Jungle (2006) • Kong: Skull Island (2017) • Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) • Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
 
Other Toho films
Shōwa period
Ramayana (1940s) • Invisible Man (1954) • Half Human (1955) • Rodan (1956) • The Mysterians (1957) • The H-Man (1958) • Varan (1958) • The Three Treasures (1959) • Battle in Outer Space (1959) • The Secret of the Telegian (1960) • The Human Vapor (1960) • Mothra (1961) • The Last War (1961) • Gorath (1962) • Matango (1963) • Atragon (1963) • Dogora (1964) • Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965) • The War of the Gargantuas (1966) • The Killing Bottle (1967) • Latitude Zero (1969) • Konto 55: The Great Outer Space Adventure (1969) • Space Amoeba (1970) • Daigoro vs. Goliath (1972) • Submersion of Japan (1973) • ESPY (1974) • Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974) • The War in Space (1977) • Magnitude 7.9 (1980) • Bye-Bye Jupiter (1984) • Princess from the Moon (1987)
Heisei period
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Other Japanese films
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Miscellaneous
Films
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) • The Giant Behemoth (1959) • Gorgo (1961) • Bulgasari (1962) • Gogola (1966) • Space Monster Wangmagwi (1967) • Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967) • A*P*E (1976) • The Mighty Peking Man (1977) • Pulgasari (1985) • Reptilian (1999) • Cloverfield (2008) • 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) • Colossal (2016) • The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) • Rampage (2018) • Notzilla (2019) • untitled Cloverfield sequel (TBA)
Documentaries
Fan films
Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969) • Gamera 4: Truth (2003) • Waiting for Gorgo (2009) • G vs. G (2019) • Godziban (2019) • Heritage (2020) • Coming Out (2020) • Wolfman vs. Godzilla (TBA)

 
 
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