Horror Sci-Fi
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.
Directed by
Ishirō Honda, Jerry A. Baerwitz
Myron Healey
Cmdr. James Bradley
Hisaya Ito
Ichiro
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Military Officer Katsumoto
Noriko Honma
Ken's Mom
Ayumi Sonoda
Shidori Isoh
Akihiko Hirata
Dr. Fujimora
Fuyuki Murakami
Dr. Majima
Koreya Senda
Dr. Sugimoto
Shōichi Hirose
Fisherman
Katsumi Tezuka
Varan
Kōzō Nomura
Paul Isoh
Minosuke Yamada
Secretary of Defense
Yoshibumi Tajima
Captain of Uranami
Haruo Nakajima
Varan
Nadao Kirino
Yutaka Wada
Akio Kusama
Military Officer Kusama
Hideo Shibuya
Cameraman
Clifford Kawada
Capt. Kishi
Tsuruko Kobayashi
Anna
Derick Shimatsu
Matsu, the boy
Fumito Matsuo
Paul's Friend
Akira Sera
Village High Priest
Akira Yamada
Issaku
Fumindo Matsuo
Horiguchi
Yoshikazu Kawamata
Jiro
Yasuhiro Shigenobu
Sankichi
Takashi Itô
Ken
George Sasaki
Soldier

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