Varan (film)/Credits

The following are transcripts of the Japanese opening credits of Varan, as translated into English on the Tokyo Shock DVD release of the film, and the opening credits of the film's American version, Varan the Unbelievable.

Varan

"Daikaiju Baran"
(Varan the Unbelievable)

Producer

Tomoyuki Tanaka

Original Story

Ken Kuronuma

Screenplay

Shinichi Sekizawa

Cinematography

Hajime Koizumi

Production Design

Kiyoshi Shimizu

Sound Recording

Wataru Konuma

Masanobu Miyazaki

Lighting

Mitsuo Kaneko

Music

Akira Ifukube

Assistant Director

Koji Kajita

Sound Effects

Ichiro Minawa

Editing

Ichiji Taira

Line Producer

Katsutaro Kawakami

Special Effects Cinematography

Shuzaburo Araki

Sadamasa Arikawa

Production Design

Akira Watanabe

Lighting

Kuichiro Kishida

Composition

Hiroshi Koyama

Cast

Kozo Nomura

Ayumi Sonoda

Koreya Senda

Akihiko Hirata

Fuyuki Murakami

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Minosuke Yamada

Hisaya Ito

Yoshifumi Tajima

Hiro Kirino

Akira Sera

Akio Kusama

Fumiko Honma

Akira Yamada

Fumito Matsuo

Soji Ubukata

Toku Hiara

Yoshikazu Kawamata

Yasuhiro Shigenobu

Takashi Ito

Mitsuo Tsuda

Jiro Kumagai

Shoichi Hirose

Keisuke Yamada

Hideo Shibuya

Koji Suzuki

Masaki Shinohara

Michiko Kawa

Toshiko Nakano

Hiroshi Akitsu

Mitsuo Matsumoto

Yasuo Onishi

Rinsaku Ogata

Junichiro Mukai

Tsurue Ichimanji

Satoko Taira

Eisuke Nakanishi

Takashi Narita

Keiichiro Katsumoto

Haruya Sakamoto

Ryuichi Hosokawa

Takeshi Hayamizu

Tokio Okawa

Hiroko Terasawa

Toriko Takahara

Katsumi Tezuka

Haruo Nakajima

Director of Special Effects

Eiji Tsuburaya

Director

Ishiro Honda

Varan the Unbelievable

Cory Film Corporation presents

A Dallas Production

VARAN THE UNBELIEVABLE

Starring

Myron Healy

Tsuruko Kobayashi

With

Clifford Kawada

Derick Shimatsu

Hideo Imamura

George Sasaki

Hiroshi Hisamune

Yoneo Iguchi

Michael Sung

Roy K. Ogata

Screenplay by

Sid Harris

Director of Photography

Jack Marquette

Supervising Film Editor

Jack Ruggiero

Photographic Effects

Howard Anderson Co.

Sound Mixer

Victor Appel

Property Master

Sam Harris

Makeup Artist

Robert Cowan

Costumer

Robert Odell

Assistant Director

Leonard Kunody

Script Supervisor

Margaret Lawrence

Film Editor

Ralph Cushman

Music Editor

Peter Zinner

Sound Effects Editor

Kurt Hernfeld

Sound by

Glen Glenn Sound Co.

Produced and Directed by

Jerry A. Baerwitz

Film credits

Godzilla films

Showa era

Godzilla (1954) • Godzilla Raids Again (1955) • King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) • Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) • Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) • Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) • Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) • Son of Godzilla (1967) • Destroy All Monsters (1968) • All Monsters Attack (1969) • Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971) • Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) • Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973) • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) • Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)

Heisei era

The Return of Godzilla (1984) • Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989) • Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) • Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992) • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993) • Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994) • Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)

Millennium era

Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999) • Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000) • Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001) • Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002) • Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003) • Godzilla Final Wars (2004)

Reiwa era

Live-action	Shin Godzilla (2016) • Godzilla Minus One (2023)

Animated	GODZILLA: Planet of the Monsters (2017)

American films

GODZILLA (1998) • Godzilla (2014) • Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

Short films

Monster Planet of Godzilla (1994)

Gamera films

Shōwa period	Gamera the Giant Monster (1965) • Gamera vs. Barugon (1966) • Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967) • Gamera vs. Viras (1968) • Gamera vs. Guiron (1969) • Gamera vs. Jiger (1970) • Gamera vs. Zigra (1971) • Gamera Super Monster (1980)

Heisei period	Gamera the Guardian of the Universe (1995) • Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996) • Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999) • Gamera the Brave (2006)

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) • Kong: Return to the Jungle (2006) • Kong: Skull Island (2017)

Other Toho films

Shōwa period	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) • Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1 (1980) • Magnitude 7.9 (1980) • Bye-Bye Jupiter (1984) • Princess from the Moon (1987)

Heisei period	Gunhed (1989) • Mikadoroid (1991) • Reiko, Psyche Resurrected (1991) • Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon (1994) • Rebirth of Mothra (1996) • Rebirth of Mothra 2 (1997) • Rebirth of Mothra 3 (1998) • Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 1 (2015) • Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 2 (2015)

Other Daiei films

Warning from Space (1956) • Killer Whale (1962) • Daimajin (1966) • Return of Daimajin (1966) • Wrath of Daimajin (1966) • Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts (1969)

Other Japanese films

Shōwa period	The X from Outer Space (1967) • Gappa (1967) • The Last Dinosaur (1977) • Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds (1977)

Heisei period	Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit (2008) • Death Kappa (2010) • Kaiju Mono (2016) • Kaiju Ward Gallas (2019)

Reiwa period	The Great Actress Reiko Inui (2019) • Howl from Beyond the Fog (2019) • Yuzo the Biggest Battle in Tokyo (2022)

Miscellaneous

Films	The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) • Gorgo (1961) • Space Monster Wangmagwi (1967) • Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967) • APE (1976) • The Mighty Peking Man (1977) • Reptilian (1999) • 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) • The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

Documentaries	Toho Unused Special Effects Complete Collection (1986) • Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1998) • Bringing Godzilla Down to Size (2008)

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