Matango poster
Director Ishirō Honda
Screenplay Takeshi Kimura

Matango

Original Title: マタンゴ

Release Date: 1963-08-11

Duration: 89 minutes

Synopsis

Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they try to live in a fungus covered hulk while repairing Kessei's yacht. Eventually they struggle over the food rations which were left behind by the former crew. Soon they discover something unfriendly there...

Casting

  • Kenji Sahara
    Senzô Koyama - Sailor
  • Hiroshi Koizumi
    Naoyuki Sakuta - Skipper
  • Yoshio Tsuchiya
    Masafumi Kasai - Owner
  • Akira Kubo
    Kenji Murai - Professor
  • Kumi Mizuno
    Mami Sekiguchi - Singer
  • Hiroshi Tachikawa
    Etsurô Yoshida - Writer
  • Hideyo Amamoto
    Skulking Transitional Matango (uncredited)
  • Haruo Nakajima
    Matango
  • Katsumi Tezuka
    Police Personnel (uncredited)
  • Miki Yashiro
    Akiko Sôma - Student