Can you survive the madness and terror of Matango?
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...
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Akira Kubo
Kenji Murai - Professor
Kumi Mizuno
Mami Sekiguchi - Singer
Hiroshi Koizumi
Naoyuki Sakuta - Skipper
Kenji Sahara
Senzô Koyama - Sailor
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Etsurô Yoshida - Writer
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Masafumi Kasai - Owner
Miki Yashiro
Akiko Sôma - Student
Hideyo Amamoto
Transitional Matango
Takuzō Kumagai
Doctor (as Jiro Kumagai)
Akio Kusama
Police Personnel
Yutaka Oka
Doctor
Keisuke Yamada
Doctor
Kazuo Hinata
Police Personnel
Katsumi Tezuka
Police Personnel
Haruo Nakajima
Matango
Ishirō Honda
Director
Takeshi Kimura
Screenplay
Masami Fukushima
Story
Shinichi Hoshi
Story
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Executive Producer
Hajime Koizumi
Director of Photography
Sadao Bekku
Original Music Composer
Reiko Kaneko
Editor
Eizo Kaimai
Costume Design
Teizô Toshimitsu
Costume Design
Keizô Murase
Costume Design
Shigekazu Ikuno
Production Design
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