Matango
1963 · 89 MIN · IMDB 6.4 · 3,706 VOTES · DIR. Ishirō Honda
Overview
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...
Dialogue Timeline — 691 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:15 MATANGO (ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE)
00:03:55 I'm not good at this.
00:06:52 No, it's not that strong yet.
00:09:11 I'm going to visit all of them!
00:12:40 Are you alright? Come on!
00:15:39 Aoyuki Sakuda, the skipper of the yacht
00:19:52 Well, let's find some food first, then we can look around the island.
00:25:04 Hey... let's go, okay?
00:30:09 This is carbolic acid.
00:33:27 Involved in some kind of nuclear studies.
00:35:18 We don't know for sure.
00:36:44 We shouldn't argue!
00:41:09 This island is a ship's graveyard.
00:46:18 Who's there?
00:49:43 What do you know of my affairs?!
00:51:22 Hey!
00:54:50 We don't know if it's a man!
00:58:39 Hey, did you eat some of those mushrooms?
01:01:55 Japanese legends mention laughing mushrooms
01:04:28 Hey, are you listening to me?
01:07:04 I wonder how many times I wrote something like this in my novels?
01:11:21 Mami... help me! I beg you!
01:19:10 The yacht?! Then, Sakuda came back ?
01:26:50 Teacher!
Cast & Characters
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
Hideyo Amamoto
Skulking Transitional Matango
Takuzô Kumagai
Doctor
Akio Kusama
Police Personnel
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed691
Dialogue density7.8 lines / min
First line00:00:15
Final line01:26:50
Production Record
DirectorIshirō Honda
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes3,706