Matango

Matango

6.7IMDb Score
Released:1963-08-11
Duration:89 min
Country:Japan
Director:Ishirō Honda
Actors:Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kenji Sahara, Hiroshi Tachikawa
Production:TOHO, Tokyo Laboratory

Overview:

Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they try to live in a fungus covered hulk while repairing Kessei's yacht. Eventually they struggle over the food rations which were left behind by the former crew. Soon they discover something unfriendly there...

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