Varan the Unbelievable (1962)
Horror · Science Fiction
Overview
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.
Cast
- 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
- Fumito Matsuo as Paul's Friend
- Akihiko Hirata as Dr. Fujimora
- Fuyuki Murakami as Dr. Majima