Varan the Unbelievable
1962 · TMDB 4.4
Directed by Jerry A. Baerwitz, Ishirō Honda
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.
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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 t...
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- Runtime
- 70 min
- Released
- 1962-12-07
- Studio
- Cory Film Corporation
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- Japanese
- TMDB score
- 4.4
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Key contributors
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Jerry A. Baerwitz
Director
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Ishirō Honda
Director
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Sid Harris
Writer
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Shinichi Sekizawa
Writer
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Ken Kuronuma
Writer
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Myron Healey
Cmdr. James Bradley
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Tsuruko Kobayashi
Anna
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Clifford Kawada
Capt. Kishi
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Derick Shimatsu
Matsu, the boy
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Koreya Senda
Dr. Sugimoto
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Kōzō Nomura
Paul Isoh
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Ayumi Sonoda
Shidori Isoh