Varan
Daikaijû Baran
1958, Film, 87 min, Horror, Sci-Fi, Japanese, Japan, MoviePedia score 62
A giant monster greater than Godzilla or Rodan!
When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, who decides to leave the valley and head straight for Tokyo.
Directed by Ishirō Honda, Motoyoshi Oda
Cast
- Kôzô Nomura as Kenji Uozaki
- Ayumi Sonoda as Yuriko Shinjô
- Koreya Senda as Dr. Sugimoto
- Akihiko Hirata as Dr. Fujimora, bomb expert
- Fuyuki Murakami as Dr. Majima, Sugimoto's aide
- Yoshio Tsuchiya as Military Officer Katsumoto
- Minosuke Yamada as Secretary of Defense
- Hisaya Itô as Ichiro, Yuriko's brother
- Yoshifumi Tajima as Captain of Uranami
- Nadao Kirino as Yutaka Wada
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