The H-Man
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| The H-Man | |
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 Theatrical poster for The H-Man (1958) |
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| Directed by | Ishirō Honda |
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Written by | Takeshi Kimura Hideo Unagami (story) |
| Starring | Yumi Shirakawa Kenji Sahara Akihiko Hirata Koreya Senda Makoto Satō Yoshifumi Tajima Eitarô Ozawa Yoshio Tsuchiya |
| Music by | Masaru Satō |
| Cinematography | Hajime Koizumi |
| Editing by | Kazuji Taira |
| Distributed by | Toho Columbia Pictures (1959 US release) |
| Release date(s) | June 24, 1958 (Japan) May 28, 1959 (USA) |
| Running time | 87 min. 79 min. (USA) |
| Language | Japanese English |
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The H-Man (美女と液体人間 Bijo to Ekitainingen?), is a tokusatsu film produced and released by Toho Studios in 1958. The film was made by Toho's legendary Godzilla directing/special effects/producing team of Ishirō Honda, Eiji Tsuburaya, and Tomoyuki Tanaka.
This, with films like The Human Vapor, and Matango, was one of Honda and Tsuburaya's forays into science fiction without kaiju or giant monsters. Instead, the story focuses on mobsters, nightclub singers, and radioactive, liquid creatures that live in Tokyo's sewers.
Akira Ifukube, the usual composer for the Toho tokusatsu films, did not score this movie. Rather, the more jazz-influenced Masaru Satō was assigned the job. As much of the film takes place in and around a nightclub, Satō's music is a good fit for the film.
[edit] U.S. release
The film was released by Columbia Pictures in the United States in 1959. A New York Herald Tribune film critic at the time called it, "A good-natured poke at atom-bomb tests... The picture is plainly making a case against the use of nuclear bombs. At the same time, there is a great deal of lively entertainment in the story involving police, dope smugglers, scientists and some very pretty Japanese girls."
[edit] External links
- The H-Man at the Internet Movie Database
[edit] References
- Parish, James Robert and Michael R. Pitts (1977). The Great Science Fiction Pictures. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-1029-8.
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