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The H-Man (1958)

Directed by Ishirō Honda

Science Fiction

Most recently watched by sleestakk

Overview

Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.

Rated NR | Length 87 minutes

Actors

Akihiko Hirata | Kenji Sahara | Yumi Shirakawa | Eitarô Ozawa | Yoshifumi Tajima | Makoto Satō | Koreya Senda | Yoshio Tsuchiya | Kamayuki Tsubono | Minosuke Yamada | Nadao Kirino | Ayumi Sonoda | 白石 奈緒美 | Haruya Katô | Yasuhiro Shigenobu | Toshiko Nakano | Tetsu Nakamura | Martha Miyake | Akira Sera | Shigeo Katô | Machiko Kitagawa | Jun Fujio | Ren Yamamoto | Hisaya Ito | Tadao Nakamaru | Yutaka Nakayama | Ko Mishima | Akira Yamada | Yōsuke Natsuki | Yoshiko Ieda | Yutaka Sada | Shin Ôtomo | Kan Hayashi | Sôji Ubukata | Mitsuo Tsuda | Akio Kusama | Shirô Tsuchiya | Katsumi Tezuka | Senkichi Ômura | Haruo Nakajima | Hiroshi Akitsu | Toku Ihara | Ryûtarô Amami | Yutaka Oka | Shôichi Hirose | Takuzô Kumagai | Ichirô Chiba | Kenzo Echigo | Yukihiko Gondô | Minoru Itô | Yoshio Katsuda | Kô Hayami | Saburô Iketani | Keiichirô Katsumoto | Masayoshi Kawabe | Kawamata Kiichi | Rinsaku Ogata | Hiromi Mineoka | Yasuzô Ogawa | Masaki Shinohara | Akira Kitchôji | Kazuo Hinata | Shin Yoshida | Jirô Suzukawa | Kazuo Imai | Kôji Iwamoto | Hiroyuki Satake | Masaaki Tachibana | Ikuo Kawamura | Mitsuo Matsumoto | Jirô Mitsuaki | Eisuke Nakanishi | Takashi Narita | Matsue Ono | Keiji Sakakida | Haruya Sakamoto | Hideo Shibuya | Ryôji Shimizu | Shigemi Sunagawa | Yoshiyuki Uemura | Takuya Yuki | Haruo Suzuki | Kôji Uruki | Kreisuke Yamada | Yasumasa Ônishi | Moori Yukiko

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Viewing Notes

Directed by Ishiro Honda, the legend of Japanese monster and sci-fi cinema (Gojira, Rodan and a bajillion other great movies and TV series), The H-Man is an interesting cross between a gangster flick and a sci-fi movie that actually works fairly well.

I want to like this movie a lot and give it a higher rating, but for that I’ll have to track down the recent (2009) widescreen, subtitled version as the TCM Drive-In version was 4x3 and horribly, horribly dubbed in perhaps the most racist of ways. Those two things really made me cringe.

Apparently there are even issues with the 2009 DVD release, but they seem minor in comparison.

Still, it was good to see this movie being shown on TV, and it’s one I’ve been meaning to see forever but just never made an effort to track down.

I do have to point out the great effects in The H-Man; they’re amazing for their time! The titular monster is highly radioactive and some victims literally melt when touched by or exposed to it, leading to some really effective melting people scenes that were just awesome. Well worth watching for that alone.

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