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Varan the Unbelievable poster

Varan the Unbelievable

"From a world below, it came to terrorize - to destroy - to revenge!"

44
Audience
1962 · 1h 10m
Horror, Science Fiction
Starring Myron Healey · Clifford Kawada · Koreya Senda
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About

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.

Theatrical
Dec 7, 1962
DVD / Blu-ray
May 20, 2011
Directors
Jerry A. Baerwitz, Ishirō Honda
Writers
Sid Harris, Ken Kuronuma, Shinichi Sekizawa
Producers
Tomoyuki Tanaka, Jerry A. Baerwitz
Studio
Cory Film Corporation, Dallas Production Inc., Crown International Pictures, TOHO
Keywords
monster giant monster alternate version kaiju giant monster movie daikaiju tokusatsu
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Cast

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M
Myron Healey
Cmdr. James Bradley
C
Clifford Kawada
Capt. Kishi
K
Koreya Senda
Dr. Sugimoto
K
Kōzō Nomura
Paul Isoh
A
Ayumi Sonoda
Shidori Isoh
F
Fumito Matsuo
Paul's Friend
A
Akihiko Hirata
Dr. Fujimora
F
Fuyuki Murakami
Dr. Majima
Y
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Military Officer Katsumoto
M
Minosuke Yamada
Secretary of Defense
H
Hisaya Ito
Ichiro
Y
Yoshibumi Tajima
Captain of Uranami
N
Nadao Kirino
Yutaka Wada
A
Akira Sera
Village High Priest
A
Akio Kusama
Military Officer Kusama
N
Noriko Honma
Ken's Mom
A
Akira Yamada
Issaku
F
Fumindo Matsuo
Horiguchi
Y
Yoshikazu Kawamata
Jiro
Y
Yasuhiro Shigenobu
Sankichi

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Awakening of a Forgotten Sea Creature
Taglines For Centuries It Slept Far Below the Sea Until Modern Man... Ever Searching... Ever Probing Deeper into the Unknown... Disturbed Its Peace... Then It Rose... From the Depths... Slowly... Surely... Unrelentingly... to Wreck Its Vegence... to Kill... to Destroy a Civilization that Wanted to Know to Much!
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From Below, It Came to Terrorize
Taglines From a World Below, It Came to Terrorize - To Destroy - To Revenge!
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.

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