Varan the Unbelievable (1958)

Varan the Unbelievable, released in Japan as Giant Monster Varan, is a 1958 Kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda (drama) and Eiji Tsuburaya (special effects), and their last black-and-white monster film. The title character Varan is one of Toho Studios' least-famed creations. Although shown in Japanese-language theaters in the USA, the film saw general U.S. release in 1962 only after being heavily revised, in the manner of Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, to have all principal scenes reshot with American actors. Indeed, the plot itself was generally revised, and the Japanese material consisted only of special effects, a few incidental shots, and the ending scene.

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Cast:

• Captain Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel
• Colonel. Kusama
• Minesweeper coxswain
• Director General of the Defense Agency
• Dr. Fujimura
• Dr. Majima
• Dr. Sugimoto
• Motohiko Horiguti
• Issaku
• Jiro
• Katsumoto, Lieutenant Commander
• Yutaka Kawata
• Ken
• Ken’s Mother
• Kôzô Nomura
• Fumito Matsuo
• Medium
• Myron Healey (USA)
• Shinto priest
• Ichiro Sinjo
• Ayumi Sonoda
• Tsuruko Kobayashi (USA)
• Kenji Uozaki
• Villager
• Yuriko Sinjo (woman journalist)