The H-Man

Bijo to Ekitainingen

Japan

1958

87 Min

Color

2.35:1

Japanese

Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
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SCR Takeshi Kimura, Hideo Unagami

CAST Yumi Shirakawa, Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata, Koreya Senda, Makoto Satō, Yoshifumi Tajima

SOUND Choshichiro Mikami, Masanobu Miyazaki

Synopsis

When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where she works. His disappearance stumps the police – until a young scientist appears who claims that H-Bomb tests in the Pacific, evidenced by a “ghost ship” that has turned up in the harbor, have created radioactive creatures – “H-Men” – who ooze like slime and dissolve anyone they touch. —IMDb

Director

Ishirô Honda

Ishirō Honda (本多猪四郎 Honda Ishirō), sometimes miscredited in foreign releases as “Inoshiro Honda”, (May 7, 1911 in Yamagata Prefecture – February 28, 1993) was a Japanese film director. His early film career included working as an assistant under the famed director, Akira Kurosawa.

Alongside his film duties, he was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II in China and was a prisoner there when the war ended.

He is probably best known for his tokusatsu films including several entries in the Godzilla series. He directed the original Godzilla along with King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962), Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964), All Monsters Attack (1969) and many others until 1975. He also directed such tokusatsu films such as Rodan and Mothra. His last feature film was Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975).

The following years were spent directing various sci-fi TV shows. The superhero shows Return of Ultraman, Mirrorman and Zone Fighter were also his. In addition, he… read more

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GekkoP

11Jun12

Those scenes at the club, those visual effects, that soundtrack, that ending. Enough said.

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14Jul11

Ishiro Honda takes time out from making Godzilla movies to pay tribute to William Hope Hodgson. He'd return to the author's seminal work, The Voice in the Night again on Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People. His energy and enthusiasm for the otherworldly are palpable. The man carried Japanese Sci-Fi for most of the 50s and 60s.