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'Prolific director Ishiro Honda madeMatango 11 years after his iconic

Godzilla. Like that famous kaiju film,Matango

manages to be a highly entertaining genre film utilizing imaginative monster costumes while also engaging with social and moral commentary about contemporary Japan. A group of rich Tokyo elites - the benefactors of the economic recovery of the 1960s - find themselves on a deserted island after their yacht is shipwrecked. As circumstances become increasingly difficult, the moralities of the characters are tested as they struggle to survive against the monstrous and radioactive mushroom species called "Matango" that infest the island. Hallucinatory sequences, sexual tension and gripping suspense charge this colourful B-movie based on William Hope Hodgson's 1907 short story "The Voice in the Night".' Japan Society