Varan the Unbelievable

The story

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.

Cast

M Myron HealeyCmdr. James Bradley T Tsuruko KobayashiAnna C Clifford KawadaCapt. Kishi D Derick ShimatsuMatsu, the boy K Koreya SendaDr. Sugimoto K Kōzō NomuraPaul Isoh A Ayumi SonodaShidori Isoh F Fumito MatsuoPaul's Friend A Akihiko HirataDr. Fujimora F Fuyuki MurakamiDr. Majima Y Yoshio TsuchiyaMilitary Officer Katsumoto M Minosuke YamadaSecretary of Defense

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H Hisaya ItoIchiro Y Yoshibumi TajimaCaptain of Uranami N Nadao KirinoYutaka Wada A Akira SeraVillage High Priest A Akio KusamaMilitary Officer Kusama N Noriko HonmaKen's Mom A Akira YamadaIssaku F Fumindo MatsuoHoriguchi Y Yoshikazu KawamataJiro Y Yasuhiro ShigenobuSankichi S Shōichi HiroseFisherman T Takashi ItôKen H Hideo ShibuyaCameraman T Toshitsugu SuzukiFisherman H Haruo NakajimaVaran K Katsumi TezukaVaran G George SasakiSoldier