Matango

Matango is a 1963 film about a group of castaways on an island who fall under the spell of the narcotic-like mushrooms that grow there, resulting in the people becoming mutated beings.

Directed by Ishirō Honda. Written by Takeshi Kimura, partially based on William H. Hodgson's short story "The Voice in the Night".

Attack of the Mushroom People  (taglines)

Taglines

• Attack of the Mushroom People

About

• I like ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE very much. I think the drama, rather than the special effects or the makeup, is what makes it entertaining. Fans who are in their mid-thirties always tell me that when they were children, they became terrified of eating mushrooms after they saw the movie. I very much enjoyed working on ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE. I remember that Mr. Honda spent a long period of time explaining what the film was really about. There were many American soldiers in Japan during the Vietnam War. Almost every one of them who ran into me said, "I know you!" I would always ask in which film they'd seen me, and they always would say that it was ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE.
  • Akira Kubo, KAIJU CONVERSATIONS: An Interview with Akira Kubo (December 1995)

Cast

• Akira Kubo — Professor Kenji Murai
• Kumi Mizuno — Mami Sekiguchi
• Kenji Sahara — Senzō Koyama
• Hiroshi Tachikawa — Etsurō Yoshida
• Yoshio Tsuchiya — Masafumi Kasai
• Hiroshi Koizumi — Naoyuki Sakuda
• Miki Yashiro — Akiko Sōma

External links

• Matango quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Matango at Rotten Tomatoes