Matango (1963)

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(Foreign Titles)

Nomination Year: 2007

SYNOPSIS: A group of people (skipper, first mate, movie star, millionaire, professor, his student, and a popular novelist) go on a pleasure cruise together, and their boat is caught in a violent storm. It drifts until they come ashore on an island shrouded in mist.

There is virtually nothing to eat on the island (few plants, no animals) until they discover that it's teeming with mushrooms. They also find a much larger vessel that has been beached for at least a year, and discover that there's something unusual about the mushrooms. Like, how do mushrooms teem, anyway?

Kevin Hogan

Smithee Award Nominations

Stupidest-Looking Monster
Mushrooms! Mushrooms! (But No Badgers) As the last male (untainted) survivor fights to rescue the woman kidnapped by the mushroom people, we get a really good look at those self-same mushroom people.	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Inane Dialogue
A Meteorologist in the Making Three of the remaining castaways are languishing on the beached research vessel. "It's been raining for a week!" says one of the men. "Must be the rainy season," adds the woman.	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

"Whoops!"
FTL Bullets When firing the rifle, you see the puffs of smoke on the ground a bit before you see the puffs of smoke from the rifle muzzle. They must have developed faster-than-light ammunition before indoor plumbing!

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
Ishirô Honda	Arguably the father of Godzilla -- in a metaphorical sense. If there's a giant rubber Japanese monster hanging around, he's probably the guy pointing the camera at it.

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Akira Kubo	<Not Yet in Database>
Kumi Mizuno	<Not Yet in Database>
Hideyo "Eisei" Amamoto	<Not Yet in Database>	One of Japan's most distinctive character actors. Dr. Who in King Kong Escapes, Yahachi in Yojimbo, and Deathgod in Kamen Rider.
Hiroshi Koizumi	<Not Yet in Database>	Professor Miura in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Dr. Shin'ichi Chûjô in Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. and Mothra.
Kenji Sahara	<Not Yet in Database>	Minister Takayuki Segawa in a couple Godzilla vs. films.


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