Varan the Unbelievable

The story

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 & crew

Myron HealeyCmdr. James Bradley

Tsuruko KobayashiAnna

Clifford KawadaCapt. Kishi

Derick ShimatsuMatsu, the boy

Koreya SendaDr. Sugimoto

Kōzō NomuraPaul Isoh

Ayumi SonodaShidori Isoh

Fumito Matsuo

Fumito MatsuoPaul's Friend

Akihiko HirataDr. Fujimora

Fuyuki MurakamiDr. Majima

Yoshio TsuchiyaMilitary Officer Katsumoto

Minosuke YamadaSecretary of Defense