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Varan the Unbelievable (1962)
Directed by Ishirō Honda, Jerry A. Baerwitz
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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.
Length 70 minutes
Actors
Myron Healey | Tsuruko Kobayashi | Clifford Kawada | Derick Shimatsu | Koreya Senda | Kôzô Nomura | Ayumi Sonoda | Fumito Matsuo | Akihiko Hirata | Fuyuki Murakami | Yoshio Tsuchiya | Minosuke Yamada | Hisaya Ito | Yoshifumi Tajima | Nadao Kirino | Akira Sera | Akio Kusama | Noriko Honma | Akira Yamada | Fumindo Matsuo | Yoshikazu Kawamata | Yasuhiro Shigenobu | Shôichi Hirose | Takashi Itô | Hideo Shibuya | Toshitsugu Suzuki | Haruo Nakajima | Katsumi Tezuka | George Sasaki
Viewing History (seen 2 times)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07/05/2025 | Computer | Other | Owned | 4 stars |
| 01/09/2014 | Phone | Streaming | Video on Demand | 6 stars |
| (Average) 5 stars |
Viewing Notes
This is the Crown International release that took Honda’s VARAN and chopped it down and added an entirely different premise with an American and his JP wife doing some kind of lake testing that brings Varan out to stomp on everyone.
I like Varan; I don’t like this movie. Since it uses the original film for Varan I give this a mild pass.
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