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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 legendary Godzilla directing/special effects/producing team of Ishirō Honda, Eiji Tsuburaya, and Tomoyuki Tanaka. 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.
Original Release
06/24/1958
US Release
05/28/1959
Cast
Name | Character |
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Yumi Shirakawa | Chikako Arai, singer in the nightclub |
Kenji Sahara | Dr. Masada |
Akihiko Hirata | Inspector Tominaga |
Eitarô Ozawa | Police Sgt. Miyashita |
Koreya Senda | Dr. Maki |
Makoto Satô | Uchida, gangster |
Yoshifumi Tajima | Detective Sakata |
Yoshio Tsuchiya | Detective Taguchi |
Ayumi Sonoda | Emi, lead exotic dancer |
Hisaya Itô | Misaki / Misaki, the dissolved gangster |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Yumi Shirakawa | Chikako Arai, singer in the nightclub |
Kenji Sahara | Dr. Masada |
Akihiko Hirata | Inspector Tominaga |
Eitarô Ozawa | Police Sgt. Miyashita |
Koreya Senda | Dr. Maki |
Makoto Satô | Uchida, gangster |
Yoshifumi Tajima | Detective Sakata |
Yoshio Tsuchiya | Detective Taguchi |
Ayumi Sonoda | Emi, lead exotic dancer |
Hisaya Itô | Misaki / Misaki, the dissolved gangster |
Nadao Kirino | Shimazaki, the waiter-thug |
Naomi Shiraishi | Mineko, Dr. Miko's assistant / Mineko, Dr. Maki's assistant |
Tetsu Nakamura | Mr. Chin / Mr. Chin, gangster |
Tadao Nakamaru | Detective Seki / Seki |
Minosuke Yamada | Chief of Inspectors Kusuda |
Akira Sera | Horita - Fisherman |
Haruya Katô | Sochan - Fisherman / Mattchan - Fisherman |
Yasuhiro Shigenobu | Yasukichi - Fisherman |
Senkichi Ômura | Daichan, first dissolved fisherman (Let me try on the pants!) |
Haruo Nakajima | Chosuke, second dissolved fisherman |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Tomoyuki Tanaka | Producer |