Varan the Unbelievable
Horror
Science Fiction
From a world below, it came to terrorize - to destroy - to revenge!
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.
1962-12-07
en
Cast
Director
Ishirō Honda
Myron Healey as Cmdr. James Bradley
Tsuruko Kobayashi as Anna
Clifford Kawada as Capt. Kishi
Derick Shimatsu as Matsu, the boy
Koreya Senda as Dr. Sugimoto
Kōzō Nomura as Paul Isoh
Ayumi Sonoda as Shidori Isoh
Akihiko Hirata as Dr. Fujimora
Fuyuki Murakami as Dr. Majima
Yoshio Tsuchiya as Military Officer Katsumoto
Minosuke Yamada as Secretary of Defense
Hisaya Ito as Ichiro
Yoshibumi Tajima as Captain of Uranami
Nadao Kirino as Yutaka Wada
Akio Kusama as Military Officer Kusama
Noriko Honma as Ken's Mom
Shōichi Hirose as Fisherman
Hideo Shibuya as Cameraman
Toshitsugu Suzuki as Fisherman
Haruo Nakajima as Varan
Katsumi Tezuka as Varan