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Release Date: 1958

Cast: Makoto Satō, Akihiko Hirata, Kenji Sahara, Yoshifumi Tajima, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Koreya Senda, Tadao Nakamaru, Kamayuki Tsubono, Yumi Shirakawa, Eitarô Ozawa

Categories: Movies, Science Fiction, Japanese Movies, World cinema

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, and is considered part of Toho's "mutant trilogy," along with The Human Vapor and The Secret of the Telegian. This, with films like 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... MORE

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, and is considered part of Toho's "mutant trilogy," along with The Human Vapor and The Secret of the Telegian. This, with films like 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 were the results of a nuclear explosion. Akira Ifukube, the usual composer for the Toho tokusatsu films, did not score this movie. Rather, the more jazz-influenced Masaru Satō was assigned the job, as much of the film takes place in and around a nightclub. The film was released by Columbia Pictures in the United States in 1959. A New York Herald Tribune film critic at the time called it, "A good-natured poke at atom-bomb tests... The picture is plainly making a case against the use of nuclear bombs. At the same time, LESS