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The H-Man (1958)

Directed by Ishirô Honda

Science Fiction

Most recently watched by sleestakk, sensoria

Overview

Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.

Rated NR | Length 87 minutes

Actors

Yoshio Tsuchiya | Kenji Sahara | Yoshifumi Tajima | Hisaya Ito | Akihiko Hirata | Tadao Nakamaru | Eitarô Ozawa | Tetsu Nakamura | Koreya Senda | Makoto Satô | Yumi Shirakawa | Yosuke Natsuki | Yutaka Sada | Machiko Kitagawa | Nadao Kirino | Yukihiko Gondô | Haruo Nakajima | Ayumi Sonoda | Senkichi Ômura | Takuzô Kumagai | Shôichi Hirose | Shin Ôtomo | Minoru Itô | Haruo Suzuki | Ichirô Chiba | Shigemi Sunagawa | Rinsaku Ogata | Haruya Sakamoto | Yoshiko Ieda | Ren Yamamoto | Akira Sera | Minosuke Yamada | Ko Mishima | Yasuzô Ogawa | Keiichirô Katsumoto | Kamayuki Tsubono | Shigeo Katô | Haruya Katô | Kôji Iwamoto | Akio Kusama | Yutaka Oka | Katsumi Tezuka | Yutaka Nakayama | Toshiko Nakano | Masaki Shinohara | Kôji Uruki | Akira Yamada | Sôji Ubukata | Naomi Shiraishi | Hiroshi Akitsu | Saburô Iketani | Keiji Sakakida | Toku Ihara | Hideo Shibuya | Masaaki Tachibana | Mitsuo Matsumoto | Yasuhiro Shigenobu | Jirô Suzukawa | Mitsuo Tsuda | Takashi Narita | Ryûtarô Amami | Akira Kitchôji | Kazuo Imai | Eisuke Nakanishi | Yasumasa Ônishi | Masayoshi Kawabe | Matsue Ono | Shirô Tsuchiya | Ryôji Shimizu | Hiromi Mineoka | Jirô Mitsuaki | Kenzo Echigo | Kazuo Hinata | Kawamata Kiichi | Kô Hayami | Hiroyuki Satake | Kan Hayashi | Jun Fujio | Yoshio Katsube | Ikuo Kawamura | Martha Miyake | Yoshiyuki Uemura | Kreisuke Yamada | Takuya Yuki | Moori Yukiko | Shin Yoshida

Viewing Notes

Directed by Ishiro Honda, the legend of Japanese monster and sci-fi cinema (Gojira, Rodan and a bajillion other great movies and TV series), The H-Man is an interesting cross between a gangster flick and a sci-fi movie that actually works fairly well.

I want to like this movie a lot and give it a higher rating, but for that I’ll have to track down the recent (2009) widescreen, subtitled version as the TCM Drive-In version was 4x3 and horribly, horribly dubbed in perhaps the most racist of ways. Those two things really made me cringe.

Apparently there are even issues with the 2009 DVD release, but they seem minor in comparison.

Still, it was good to see this movie being shown on TV, and it’s one I’ve been meaning to see forever but just never made an effort to track down.

I do have to point out the great effects in The H-Man; they’re amazing for their time! The titular monster is highly radioactive and some victims literally melt when touched by or exposed to it, leading to some really effective melting people scenes that were just awesome. Well worth watching for that alone.

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