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.

4.281

70 min

Cast

Myron Healey

as Cmdr. James Bradley

Tsuruko Kobayashi

as Anna

Clifford Kawada

as Capt. Kishi

Derick Shimatsu

as Matsu, the boy

Koreya Senda

as Dr. Sugimoto

Kōzō Nomura

as Paul Isoh

Ayumi Sonoda

as Shidori Isoh

Fumito Matsuo

as Paul's Friend

Akihiko Hirata

as Dr. Fujimora

Fuyuki Murakami

as Dr. Majima

Yoshio Tsuchiya

as Military Officer Katsumoto

Minosuke Yamada

as Secretary of Defense

Hisaya Ito

as Ichiro

Yoshibumi Tajima

as Captain of Uranami

Nadao Kirino

as Yutaka Wada

Akira Sera

as Village High Priest

Akio Kusama

as Military Officer Kusama

Noriko Honma

as Ken's Mom

Akira Yamada

as Issaku

Fumindo Matsuo

as Horiguchi

Yoshikazu Kawamata

as Jiro

Yasuhiro Shigenobu

as Sankichi

Shōichi Hirose

as Fisherman

Takashi Itô

as Ken

Hideo Shibuya

as Cameraman

Toshitsugu Suzuki

as Fisherman

Haruo Nakajima

as Varan

Katsumi Tezuka

as Varan

George Sasaki

as Soldier

Director

Jerry A. Baerwitz

Ishirō Honda