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Can you survive the madness and terror of Matango?
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Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they try to live in a fungus covered hulk while repairing Kessei's yacht. Eventually they struggle over the food rations which were left behind by the former crew. Soon they discover something unfriendly there...
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Directed by: Ishirō Honda, Hajime Koizumi, Koji Kajita
Produced by: Tomoyuki Tanaka
Composed by: Sadao Bekku
Cast

Akira Kubo
Kenji Murai - Professor

Kumi Mizuno
Mami Sekiguchi - Singer

Hiroshi Koizumi
Naoyuki Sakuta - Skipper

Kenji Sahara
Senzô Koyama - Sailor

Hiroshi Tachikawa
Etsurô Yoshida - Writer

Yoshio Tsuchiya
Masafumi Kasai - Owner

Miki Yashiro
Akiko Sôma - Student

Takuzō Kumagai
Doctor (as Jirô Kumagai) (uncredited)

Akio Kusama
Police Personnel (uncredited)

Katsumi Tezuka
Police Personnel (uncredited)
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