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Varan the Unbelievable

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.

1962 |1h 10m |  Horror, Science Fiction

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Cast

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Myron Healey

Cmdr. James Bradley

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Tsuruko Kobayashi

Anna

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Clifford Kawada

Capt. Kishi

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Derick Shimatsu

Matsu, the boy

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Koreya Senda

Dr. Sugimoto

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Kōzō Nomura

Paul Isoh

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Ayumi Sonoda

Shidori Isoh

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Akihiko Hirata

Dr. Fujimora

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Fuyuki Murakami

Dr. Majima

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Yoshio Tsuchiya

Military Officer Katsumoto

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Minosuke Yamada

Secretary of Defense

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Yoshifumi Tajima

Captain of Uranami

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Nadao Kirino

Yutaka Wada

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Akio Kusama

Military Officer Kusama

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Noriko Honma

Ken's Mom

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Shōichi Hirose

Fisherman

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Hideo Shibuya

Cameraman

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Haruo Nakajima

Varan

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Katsumi Tezuka

Varan

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Status

Released

Language

English, Japanese

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