Varan the Unbelievable
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.
Cast
Myron Healey
as Cmdr. James Bradley
Tsuruko Kobayashi
as Anna
Clifford Kawada
as Capt. Kishi
Derick Shimatsu
as Matsu, the boy
Koreya Senda
as Dr. Sugimoto
Kōzō Nomura
as Paul Isoh
Ayumi Sonoda
as Shidori Isoh
Fumito Matsuo
as Paul's Friend
Akihiko Hirata
as Dr. Fujimora
Fuyuki Murakami
as Dr. Majima
