Genres
Production Companies
Dallas Production Inc.
Crown International Pictures
TOHO
Varan the Unbelievable
From a world below, it came to terrorize - to destroy - to revenge!
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Director: Jerry A. Baerwitz, Ishirō Honda
Screenplay: Shinichi Sekizawa, Sid Harris
Story: Ken Kuronuma
Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka, Jerry A. Baerwitz
Director of Photography: Jacques R. Marquette
Top Cast
Myron Healey
Cmdr. James Bradley
Tsuruko Kobayashi
Anna
Clifford Kawada
Capt. Kishi
Derick Shimatsu
Matsu, the boy
Koreya Senda
Dr. Sugimoto
Kōzō Nomura
Paul Isoh
Ayumi Sonoda
Shidori Isoh
Fumito Matsuo
Paul's Friend
