Varan the Unbelievable
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1962-12-07
Runtime: 70 mins
Director: Jerry A. Baerwitz, Ishirō Honda
Spoken language: English, 日本語
Genres: Horror, Science Fiction
Original title: Varan the Unbelievable
Production Companies: Cory Film Corporation, Dallas Production Inc., Crown International Pictures, TOHO
Production Countries: United States of America, Japan
Cast
Myron Healey
Tsuruko Kobayashi
Clifford Kawada
Derick Shimatsu
Koreya Senda
Kōzō Nomura
Ayumi Sonoda
Fumito Matsuo
Akihiko Hirata
Fuyuki Murakami
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Minosuke Yamada
Hisaya Ito
Yoshibumi Tajima
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