#Yoshio Tsuchiya

[gurumog]

Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) 怪獣大戦争 Toho Co., Ltd Dir. Ishirō Honda

Nick Adams as Astronaut Glenn Kumi Mizuno as Miss Namikawa Yoshio Tsuchiya as Controller of Planet X

#invasion of astro-monster #nick adams #kumi mizuno #yoshio tsuchiya #1960s science fiction #godzilla #怪獣大戦争 #japanese giant monster films #daikaiju #kaiju

[chernobog13]

The Controller of Planet X flipping you off.

#Invasion of Astro-Monster #Monster Zero #Controller of Planet X #Yoshio Tsuchiya #Planet X #Xians #sijin #uchujin #tokusatsu #Toho

[clemsfilmdiary]

Matango (1963, Ishirō Honda)

Also known as: Attack of the Mushroom People

マタンゴ　（本多猪四郎）

10/14/23

#Matango #Ishiro Honda #Akira Kubo #Kumi Mizuno #Hiroshi Koizumi #Kenji Sahara #Hiroshi Tachikawa #Yoshio Tsuchiya #Miki Yashiro #60s #horror #mystery #science fiction #Japanese #J-horror #shipwreck #island #yacht #survival #boat #mushrooms #radiation #mutation #starvation #bodily transformation #fungi #cult films #B movie

[anhed-nia]

BLOGTOBER 10/27/2022: MATANGO

Ishiro Honda's relentlessly grim, genre-bending thriller about mutant mushroom people issued me a challenge that I may have failed: Once the dangerously addictive mushrooms and their hybrid-human progeny arrived in the film, I rapidly lost my ability to think about anything else going on in the story. Much of MATANGO is a grimy, downbeat survival horror narrative about a group of people stranded on a desert island, a circumstance that causes their humanity to fall away, as does the malignant fungus that is their only source of food…and like, I don't mean to cast aspersions on the compelling script or any of the fine performances in this film, but I very much relate to the compulsive desires of the hungry cast of characters: More mushrooms! MORE MUSHROOM PEOPLE!

I'd put a spoiler alert on this review (if you're reading it on Letterboxd then I actually did), but when a movie starts out with someone reflecting on their experience from a mental institution, you already know it's going to get dark. Sensitive university professor Kenji Murai (Akira Kubo) reflects on the events that left him in such a place, beginning with an ill-fated outing on a yacht belonging to arrogant celebrity Masafumi Kasai (Yoshio Tsuchiya). The passengers are a mix of spoiled intellectuals and entertainers who stand in stark contrast to the sneering, fed-up crew of the ship, and the obvious tensions between them all boil over quickly when a storm strands them on a remote island where food is scarce. They take up residence in a beached spy ship that holds evidence of an experimental fungus which, it soon becomes clear, is slowly taking over the island, causing madness and mutation in anyone who dares to take a bite. This gang would have had no trouble turning on each other in any case, but the mushroom madness certainly doesn't help.

Make no mistake, there's a lot going on in MATANGO subtextually: The hapless survivors are ultimately the victims of international espionage efforts that spawned the killer fungus, which identifies war as the ultimate culprit, much as it is in Ishiro Honda's masterpiece GODZILLA. In fact, it's worth mentioning that the film was nearly banned in its homeland due to the resemblance of some of the mid-mutation makeup to the disfiguring injuries of atomic bomb survivors; even if this was coincidental, it's pretty affecting. There is also a lot to say about class tensions in MATANGO, as hostilities mount between the yacht's passengers, who get to think and play for a living, and the sailors who enable their pleasure cruise. Honda has further noted that the 1963 movie reflected on the rise of a drug-fueled counterculture, using the all-consuming mushrooms as a general-purpose metaphor for the ravages of addiction. But all that said…you gotta love the mushrooms. They're so great.

Production designer Shigekagi Ikuno (also responsible for the beautiful LAKE OF DRACULA) does a handy job of entrapping the viewer in the claustrophobic, mold-caked world of MATANGO, and he's at his best in the psychedelic mushroom forest at the heart of the island. Conceptual artist Shigeru Komatsuzaki completes the picture with his fabulous mutant designs, perhaps a little too well, as once I laid eyes on them shambling across the set, they took up all of my attention. They're just so cool-looking, plus who wouldn't want to live in their funky little forest with the fairy lights all around it? Actually, the one thing that's missing from MATANGO is an explanation of the disadvantages of turning into a mushroom. When we eventually return to the mental institution where the sole survivor resides, he ruminates on whether he shouldn't have just given in and stayed on the island. (He also makes some salient remarks about his own moral failings that may be reflective of Ishiro Honda's dim view of human nature, but I won't spoil them here) Everybody there seemed to be having a good time; sure, they were high on shrooms, but maybe permanently tripping and leaving humanity behind isn't such a bad thing. The vampy Kumi Mizuno looks like she really enjoyed her psychotropic snacks, which were made from rice pastry for the production by a local shop who added fun flavors just because they liked the actress so much. The attractive colors and the look on her face when she ate them really made me want one. Hell, I want one right now!

#blogtober #blogtober 2022 #matango #ishiro honda #akira kubo #Yoshio Tsuchiya #kumi mizuno #Miki Yashiro #horror #sci-fi #science fiction #body horror #survival horror #mutation #mushroom #fungus

[ferretfyre]

#son of godzilla #film #review #criterion collection #godzilla #jun fukuda #akira kubo #tadao takashima #bibari maeda #akihiko hirata #yoshio tsuchiya

[ulrichgebert]

Hurrah, Drag Queens! Eddie-Puss tötet aus Eifersucht Mamma und schläft versehentlich mit seinem unbekannten Vater. Soweit so klassische Tragödie, alles in einer surrealen, subversiven und beherzt nichtlinearen Odyssee (ha!) durch den schwulen Untergrund von Tokyo in den 60er-Jahren, einschließlich kleiner Dokumentarszenen mit Interviews mit seinen authentischen Transgender-Darstellern: Peter, der Eddie spielt (und später noch Kurosawas Ran mit), findet das mit dem Inszest nicht so toll, lange bevor wir draufkommen. Es ist groß, wild und fabelhaft und sollte einer der grossen Kultfilme aller Zeiten sein, aber ich hatte noch nie was davon gehört. Dumm von mir.

#Funeral Parade of Roses #薔薇の葬列 #Bara no Sōretsu #Peter #Osamu Ogasawara #Yoshio Tsuchiya #Emiko Azuma #Film gesehen #Toshio Matsumoto

[fridge-04]

Shōwa Era old heads returning for one last Godzilla movie 🫡

#Yoshio Tsuchiya was a real fan lol #seemed like such a quirky guy with a deep genuine love for Godzilla #also Hiroshi Koizumi at nearly 80 years old getting the call to reprise a role from 40 years ago must’ve been wild

[differenthead]

Volume 240

Listen to Different Head, Vol. 240: "Water Music" (Jan. 28, 2023) byDifferent Head on hearthis.at

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0:00:00 — "The Navigator" / "Dragonhall" (Pt. 2) by Andrew Pinches (1989)

0:05:27 — DJ

0:08:19 — "Angel's Anthem" by Yantra de Vilder (1989)

0:16:06 — A Scene from Radioactive Dreams by Peter Manning Robinson (1985)

0:18:23 — "Never Mind" by Masami Tsuchiya (1983)

0:22:48 — DJ

0:26:41 — "Ya Son Dos Los Cielos" by Suso Sáiz (1986)

0:31:26 — "Drifting, Pt. 1" by Tats Lau (1992)

0:34:34 — "Solar Plexus" by Mœbius & Plank (1980)

0:39:12 — "Germinating" by Enno Velthuys (1984)

0:45:15 — DJ

0:49:45 — "Verena" (Edit) by Walter Christian Rothe (1985)

0:52:12 — "Water Music" by Free Radicals (1983)

0:58:22 — "Summer Days" by Paradigm Shift (1989)

1:02:50 — "Winter Bride" by Paradigm Shift (1989)

1:06:19 — DJ

1:11:15 — "Flius" by Yoshio Ojima (1988)

#andrew pinches #yantra de vilder #peter manning robinson #masami tsuchiya #suso saiz #tats lau #moebius & plank #enno velthuys #walter christian rothe #free radicals #paradigm shift #yoshio ojima

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

Matango (マタンゴ Matango) is a 1963 tokusatsu horror film directed by Ishiro Honda and written by Takeshi Kimura from a story by Shinichi Hoshi and Masami Fukushima, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced by Toho, it is a loose adaptation of the 1907 short story "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson. It stars Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kenji Sahara, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Yoshio Tsuchiya, and Miki Yashiro. The film was released to Japanese theaters by Toho on August 11, 1963. American International Television released an English-dubbed version of the film to American television syndication in 1965 under the title Attack of the Mushroom People.

Matango follows a group of seven wealthy friends from Tokyo whose yacht is caught in a storm and wrecked on a seemingly uninhabited island in the Ogasawara chain. After examining another derelict ship on the island, they learn that its crewmembers were investigating the effects of nuclear testing on the island and gradually vanished after consuming the bizarre native mushrooms growing on the island which they called "Matango." With food and resources becoming more and more scarce, the survivors turn against each other and one-by-one fall under the influence of the Matango, which they find is slowly mutating those who eat it into grotesque fungal creatures.

#attack of the mushroom people #japanese film #matango #1963 #60s films #60s horror #1960s #60s #tokusatsu #ishiro honda #eiji tsuburaya #toho #the voice in the night #william hope hodgson #1965 #1907 #mushrooms #fungi #fungi people #mushroom #fungus #fungus among us #fungal creatures #i watched this on tubi #horror film #horror films #film poster art

[docrotten]

THE H-MAN (1958, BIJO TO EKITAI NINGEN) – Episode 173 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era

“What if by some bizarre phenomenon, his physical form just melted away? Would that fit your crime scene?” Hmm … bizarre phenomenon? Let’s run with it. Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Doc Rotten, and Jeff Mohr along with guest host Chris Peters – as they discuss Toho’s The H-Man (1958), directed by the great Ishirô Honda.

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 173 – The H-Man (1958)

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When a narcotics dealer disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police are stumped. A scientist claims H-Bomb tests in the Pacific have created radioactive creatures – “H-Men” – who ooze like slime and liquify anyone they touch.

  Directed by: Ishirô Honda

Writing Credits: Takeshi Kimura (written by); Hideo Unagami (story)

Produced by: Tomoyuki Tanaka

Music by: Masaru Satô

Cinematography by: Hajime Koizumi

Editing by: Kazuji Taira

Production Design by: Takeo Kita

Special Effects by: Eiji Tsuburaya (director of special effects) 

Selected Cast:

Yumi Shirakawa as Chikako Arai, singer in the nightclub

Kenji Sahara as Dr. Masada

Akihiko Hirata as Inspector Tominaga

Eitarô Ozawa as Police Sgt. Miyashita (as Eitaro Ozawa)

Koreya Senda as Dr. Maki

Makoto Satô as Uchida, gangster

Yoshifumi Tajima as Detective Sakata

Yoshio Tsuchiya as Detective Taguchi

Ayumi Sonoda as Emi, lead exotic dancer

Hisaya Itô as Misaki, the dissolved gangster

Nadao Kirino as Shimazaki, the waiter-thug

Naomi Shiraishi as Mineko, Dr. Maki’s assistant

Tetsu Nakamura as Mr. Chin, gangster

Tadao Nakamaru as Detective Seki

Minosuke Yamada as Chief of Inspectors Kusuda

Akira Sera as Horita – Fisherman

Haruya Katô as Sochan – Fisherman

Yasuhiro Shigenobu as Yasukichi – Fisherman

Senkichi Ômura as Daichan, 1st dissolved fisherman (Let me try on the pants!)

Haruo Nakajima as Chosuke, 2nd dissolved fisherman & Liquid Human Being

Shigeo Katô as Matchan, 3rd dissolved fisherman

Paul Frees as Various Voices (American dubbing)

Are you ready to battle an invasion of liquified men? Watch out, The Blob (1958), The H-Man (1958) is here to make you rue the day. Toho Films and director Ishirô Honda (Godzilla, 1954) blend sci-fi, horror, film noir, and… cabaret… for all kinds of horrifying shenanigans. Yup, people liquify left and right throughout the short 87-minute runtime. That’s right, only gooey globs of clothes and hairpieces remain. Join the Grue-Crew along with special guest-host Chris Peters (aka, José) as they revisit and review this unusual yet highly entertaining entry from the film company that gave the world Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda, Godzilla, Mothra, and so much more.

At the time of this writing, The H-Man is available for streaming from the Classic Horror Movie Channel, Classic Sci-Fi Movie Channel, and Tubi.

You may be interested in these other Decades of Horror episodes focused on Ishirô Honda-directed films:

GODZILLA (1954, GOJIRA) – Episode 58 – Decades of Horror: The Classic Era

HALF HUMAN (JÛ JIN YUKI OTOKO, 1955) – Episode 16 – Decades of Horror: The Classic Era

RODAN (1956) – Episode 101 – Decades of Horror: The Classic Era

MATANGO (1963, ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE) – Episode 135 – Decades of Horror: The Classic Era

THE WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS (FURANKENSHUTAIN NO KAIJÛ: SANDA TAI GAIRA, 1966) – Episode 57 – Decades of Horror: The Classic Era

SPACE AMOEBA (1970, YOG: MONSTER FROM SPACE) – Episode 127 – Decades of Horror 1970s

TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA (1975) – Episode 165 – Decades of Horror 1970s

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule, as chosen by guest host Scott Wells is King of the Zombies (1941), a horror comedy directed by Jean Yarbrough (The Devil Bat, 1940; House of Horrors, 1946; The She-Wolf of London, 1946) and starring Dick Purcell, Joanne Woodbury, Henry Victor, and the great Mantan Moreland.

Please let them know how they’re doing! They want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: leave them a message or leave a comment on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel, the site, or email the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era podcast hosts at [email protected]

To each of you from each of them, “Thank you so much for watching and listening!”

Check out this episode!

[byneddiedingo]

Takashi Shimura in Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa,1954)

Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Daisuke Kato, Seigi Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Isao Kimura, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Bokuzen Hidari, Yukiko Shimazaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Keiko Tsushima, Kokuten Kodo, Yoshio Kosugi. Shinpei Takagi, Eijiro Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai. Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni. Cinematography: Asakazu Nakai. Production design: Takashi Matsuyama. Film editing: Akira Kurosawa. Music: Fumio Hayasaka. 

It's a truism that silent movies and talkies constitute two distinct artistic media, and to judge the one by the standards of the other is an error. But it's almost impossible to watch films made by older directors, especially those who came of age when silent films were being made, without noticing the efforts they make to tell their stories without speech. It's true of John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, and Howard Hawks, even though they, especially Hawks, became masters of dialogue in their films. And it's true of Kurosawa, who although he didn't begin his career in films until 1936 and directed his first one in 1943, was born in 1910 and grew up with silent movies. I think it helped him learn the universals of storytelling that are independent of language, so that he became the most popular of all Japanese filmmakers. Others rank the work of Ozu or Mizoguchi more highly, but Kurosawa's films manage to transcend the limitations of subtitles more easily. Of none of his films is this more true than Seven Samurai, which is also generally regarded, even by those with reservations about Kurosawa's work, as his masterpiece. That's not a word I use lightly, but having sat enthralled through the uncut version, three hours and 27 minutes long, last night, I'm willing to endorse it. It's an exhilarating film, with none of the longueurs that epics -- I'm thinking of Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939) and Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962) -- so easily fall into. I don't know of any action film with as many vividly drawn characters, and that's largely because Kurosawa takes the time to delineate each one. It's also a film about its milieu, 16th-century Japan, although as its American imitation, The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges, 1960), shows, there's a universality about the antagonism between fighters and farmers. Kurosawa captures this particularly well in the character of Kikuchiyo (Toshiro Mifune), the would-be samurai who reveals in mid-film that he was raised as a farmer and carried both a kind of self-hate for his class along with a hatred for the arrogant treatment of farmers by samurai. Mifune's show-off performance is terrific, but the film really belongs to Takashi Shimura, who radiates stillness and wisdom as Kambei Shimada, the leader of the seven. There are clichés to be found, such as the fated romance of the young samurai trainee Katsushiro (Isao Kimura) and the farmer's daughter Shino (Keiko Tsushima), but like the best clichés, they ring true. Seven Samurai earned two Oscar nominations, for Takashi Matsuyama's art direction and Kohei Ezaki's costumes, but won neither. Overlooking Kurosawa's direction, Shimura's performance, and Asakazu Nakai's cinematography is unforgivable, if exactly what one expects from the Academy.

#Seven Samurai #Akira Kurosawa #Takashi Shimura

[copyspaghetti]

You know what

It's been long enough since I worked on my mobstuck au to know that I will not finish that or make it a complete fanwork so I will be releasing it in a few posts

Characters under the cut

Humans:

Mobu Kageyama (bard of heart, first guardian, derse, land of curtains and cutlery and vases and frogs, gaffeTorque)

Ritz Kageyama (prince of space, derse, locacavaf, tremulousTurpitude)

Tome Kurata (knight of void, derse, land of iron and echo, terrestrialGuile)

Ichi Mezato (heir of light, prospit, land of flashes and islands, gumptiousGecko)

Bomi Takane (maid of mind, derse, land of traps and pedestals, gamutTangentials)

Tena Onigawara (page of time, prospit, land of pipes and dials, tenderTactitian)

Momo Takenaka (seer of doom, prospit, land of mushrooms and tombs, galleryGrievance)

Emmi Matsui (rogue of blood, prospit, land of webs and paper, trialedGlobetrotter)

Trolls:

Araaka Reigen (knight of life, rust blood, prospit, land of rafts and vents, arbitraryAscendent)

Teruki Hanaza (mage of breath, mustard blood, prospit, land of hills and crowns, tantalizedAccord)

Dimple Yoshio (thief of time, olive blood, derse, land of bone and games, adornedCelestialist)

Kazuya Seriza (rogue of space, blue blood, derse, land of vines and frogs, conservedTrajectory)

Minori Asagir (witch of void, cerulean blood, derse, land of locks and foil, abjuringGlutton)

Bansho Shinra (seer of doom, bronze blood, prospit, land of tundra and whispers, abysmalTautology)

Carapacians:

Troll exiles (Spades Slick, Hearts Boxcars, Diamonds Droog, Clubs Deuce, black queen)

Human exiles (Jack Noir, Courtyard Droll, White Queen, Ms. Paint, Writkeeper)

Human exiles live a chill peaceful life on earth because Jack Noir marries mspaint and they live happily ever after. He doesn't have any beef with the white queen so reintroduction of society goes smoothly.

Human dersites hearts boxcars and diamonds droog find themselves siding with Ritsu to take the ring from the black queen. All three dersites get sucked into the void by Ritsu ripping space apart with his prince of space + first guardian powered ring.

The felt:

1. Kaito Shiratori

2. Daichi Shiratori

3. Ryo Shimazaki

4. Toshiki Minegishi

5. Ishiguro

6. Matsuo

7. Megumu Koyama

8. Miyagawa

9. Rei Kurosaki

10. Muto

11. Mukai

12. Tsuchiya

13. Yusuke Sakurai

14. Terada

Cherubs:

Toichirou Suzuki

Shou Suzuki

First guardians:

Keiji Mogami (MOG)

Mobu Kageyama (MOB)

#mobstuck #mob psycho 100 #mobstuck au #mobstuck characters #mobreimob #reimobrei #because this is a MRM same age au hahah #same age au #same age mobreimob #homestuck

[screamingreek]

Frankenstein Conquers the World - AKA Frankenstein vs. Baragon -1965 (2 x DVD) Ishirô Honda, Nick Adams, Kumi Mizuno, Tadao Takashima, Yoshio Tsuchiya - Tokyo Shock / TOHO Scope

FOR SALE!!! FIND THIS ITEM AND MORE AT screaming-greek.com or check out the link in my bio... Frankenstein Conquers the World - 1965  - AKA Frankenstein vs. Baragon Directed by Ishirô Honda Starring Nick Adams, Kumi Mizuno, Tadao Takashima, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kôji Furuhata, Jun Tazaki Pre-Owned - 2 x DVD Tokyo Shock / TOHO Scope - 2007 Read the full article

[esonetwork]

Destroy All Monsters| Episode 349

New Post has been published on https://esonetwork.com/destroy-all-monsters-episode-349/

Destroy All Monsters| Episode 349

MONSTER ATTACK! returns following a lengthy break with a look at the 1968 Kaiju Classic “Destroy All Monsters,” Starring Akira Kubo, Yukko Kobayashi, Kyoko Ai, Jun Tazaki, Yoshio Tsuchiya and directed by Ishiro Honda. ark Maddox joins Jim for a rousing discussion on this monster fest as well as a look at future shows. Join us for this special episode of MONSTER AATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

#Classic Kaiju film #Destroy All Monsters #ESO Network #Ishiro Honda #Mark Maddox #MONSTER ATTACK! RETURNS

[othersidesofnobody]

Police in Sosa, Chiba Prefecture, have arrested a 93-year-old man on suspicion of killing a 78-year-old acquaintance. According to police, Hiroshi Kawaguchi has admitted using a hammer to beat Yoshio Tsuchiya at his (the victim's) home between Dec 26 and Jan 20, Kyodo News reported. Tsuchiya suffered multiple blows to…

[toga-kanazawa]

・ TOGA KANAZAWA #Repost @togaarchives with @use.repost ・・・ TOGA SPRING SUMMER 2023 Director : Yoshio Wakatsuki Film Director : Katz Sasaki Styling : Shotaro Yamaguchi Hair : Asashi Make-up : Nobuko Maekawa Casting : Bobbie Tanabe Music : Eiko Ishibashi Sounds Director : Shuhei Abe Backstage Photographer : Ko Tsuchiya Production : DRUMCAN Inc #toga #togaarchives #togakanazawa https://www.instagram.com/p/CiuwcYHhrtv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#repost #toga #togaarchives #togakanazawa