The H-Man
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| Directed by | Ishirō Honda |
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
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Takeshi Kimura Hideo Unagami (story) |
| Starring |
Yumi Shirakawa Kenji Sahara Akihiko Hirata Koreya Senda Makoto Satō Yoshifumi Tajima Eitaro Ozawa Yoshio Tsuchiya |
| Music by | Masaru Sato |
| Cinematography | Hajime Koizumi |
| Edited by | Kazuji Taira |
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Toho Columbia Pictures (U.S.) |
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87 minutes 79 minutes (USA) |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
The H-Man, known in Japan as Beauty and Liquid Men (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 Godzilla directing, special effects, producing team of Ishirō Honda, Eiji Tsuburaya, and Tomoyuki Tanaka. The film was released by Columbia Pictures in the United States in 1959, on a double bill with the British horror film The Woman Eater.
This, like such films as 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, which are the results of a nuclear explosion.
(Japanese Version)
Following a routine nuclear experiment, the ship Ryujin Maru II disappeared while in the South Pacific Days later, another ship, bound for Izu, stumbles upon the craft adrift at sea. Six members of the crew decide to board the ship. To their surprise, they find no one on board at all, only clothes lying around but in a way that, in dim light, make them look like a person is in them. In the captain's room, they find an unfinished log, and begin to suspect that the crew must have been killed somehow. While leaving the captain's room, Dai, one of the crew members who boarded the ship, is killed by a mysterious blue liquid that climbs up his leg and melts his body, leaving only his clothes behind. After killing Dai, the liquid takes the shape of a man and is joined by another one from the window. The monsters rush at one of the terrified men and quickly claim another victim. Next, Sou is killed on the dock while trying to escape. Only two of the original six make it off the ship alive, and they spot Liquid People (H-Men) walking around the deck as they disembark away from the ship.
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