Matango

Matango (マタンゴ) (also known as Matango, Fungus of Terror and Attack of the Mushroom People) is a 1963 tokusatsu eiga. Produced by Toho Company, Ltd., it was directed by Ishiro Honda, written by Takeshi Kimura and had special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. It starred Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Hiroshi Koizumi, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kenji Sahara, Hiroshi Tachikawa, and Miki Yashiro. The movie has developed something of a cult audience over the years; partly due to its bleakness and overall weirdness, particularly when compared to other Japanese films of the same period. It is based on the story "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson.

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