Varan the Unbelievable
From a world below, it came to terrorize - to destroy - to revenge!
1962 | 70m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Jerry A. Baerwitz, Ishirō Honda |
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| Writer: | Sid Harris, Ken Kuronuma, Shinichi Sekizawa |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Dec 07, 1962 |
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| Director: | Jerry A. Baerwitz, Ishirō Honda |
| Writer: | Sid Harris, Ken Kuronuma, Shinichi Sekizawa |
| Genres: | Science Fiction, Horror |
| Keywords | monster, giant monster, alternate version, kaiju, giant, monster movie, daikaiju, tokusatsu |
| Production Companies | TOHO, Crown International Pictures, Cory Film Corporation, Dallas Production Inc. |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Myron Healey | Cmdr. James Bradley |
| Tsuruko Kobayashi | Anna |
| Clifford Kawada | Capt. Kishi |
| Derick Shimatsu | Matsu, the boy |
| Koreya Senda | Dr. Sugimoto |
| Kōzō Nomura | Paul Isoh |
| Ayumi Sonoda | Shidori Isoh |
| Fumito Matsuo | Paul's Friend |
| Akihiko Hirata | Dr. Fujimora |
| Fuyuki Murakami | Dr. Majima |
| Yoshio Tsuchiya | Military Officer Katsumoto |
| Minosuke Yamada | Secretary of Defense |
| Hisaya Ito | Ichiro |
| Yoshifumi Tajima | Captain of Uranami |
| Nadao Kirino | Yutaka Wada |
| Akira Sera | Village High Priest |
| Akio Kusama | Military Officer Kusama |
| Noriko Honma | Ken's Mom |
| Akira Yamada | Issaku |
| Fumindo Matsuo | Horiguchi |
| Yoshikazu Kawamata | Jiro |
| Yasuhiro Shigenobu | Sankichi |
| Shōichi Hirose | Fisherman |
| Takashi Itô | Ken |
| Hideo Shibuya | Cameraman |
| Toshitsugu Suzuki | Fisherman |
| Haruo Nakajima | Varan |
| Katsumi Tezuka | Varan |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Rudolph Cusumano | Editor |
| Robert Cowan | Makeup Artist |
| Sid Harris | Screenplay |
| Victor B. Appel | Sound Mixer |
| Robert O'Dell | Costumer |
| Jerry A. Baerwitz | Director |
| Jacques R. Marquette | Director of Photography |
| Peter Zinner | Music Editor |
| Kurt Hernfeld | Sound Effects Editor |
| Margaret Lawrence | Script Supervisor |
| Jack Ruggiero | Supervising Film Editor |
| Leonard Kunody | Assistant Director |
| Sam Harris | Property Master |
| Akira Ifukube | Original Music Composer |
| Ishirō Honda | Director |
| Eiji Tsuburaya | Visual Effects, Special Effects |
| Ken Kuronuma | Story |
| Shinichi Sekizawa | Screenplay |
| Koji Kajita | Assistant Director |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Jerry A. Baerwitz | Producer |
| Tomoyuki Tanaka | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 4 |
| 2024 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 4 |
| 2024 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 3 |
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| 2024 | 9 | 4 | 12 | 1 |
| 2024 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 4 |
| 2024 | 11 | 5 | 13 | 2 |
| 2024 | 12 | 5 | 11 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
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