Matango [1963 film]

by Ishirō Honda (Director), Takeshi Kimura (Screenwriter)

Other authors: Hideyo Amamoto (Actor), Sadao Bekku (Composer), William Hope Hodgson (Original story), Hiroshi Koizumi (Actor), Akira Kubo (Actor) — 6 more, Kumi Mizuno (Actor), Haruo Nakajima (Actor), Kenji Sahara (Actor), Tomoyuki Tanaka (Producer), Eiji Tsuburaya (Special effects), Yoshio Tsuchiya (Actor)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Honda, Ishirō	Director	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Kimura, Takeshi	Screenwriter	main author	all editions	confirmed
Amamoto, Hideyo	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bekku, Sadao	Composer	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hodgson, William Hope	Original story	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Koizumi, Hiroshi	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Kubo, Akira	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Mizuno, Kumi	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Nakajima, Haruo	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Sahara, Kenji	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Tanaka, Tomoyuki	Producer	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Tsuburaya, Eiji	Special effects	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Tsuchiya, Yoshio	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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The Voice in the Night [short story] by William Hope Hodgson

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Matango [1963 film]

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マタンゴ

Matango

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Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People

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"After a yacht is damaged in a storm and stranded on a deserted island, the passengers ... take refuge in a fungus covered boat. While using ... mushrooms for sustenance, they find the ship's journal describing the mushrooms to be poisonous, however some members of the shipwrecked party continue to ingest the mysterious fungi transforming them into hideous fungal monsters."

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