The H-Man (1958)

Original title

美女と液体人間

Directed by

Ishirō Honda

Genre

horror film, science fiction film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A ship's crew disappears and is found only as radioactive sludge. A scientist and a nightclub singer investigate the mysterious liquid beings that melt people and spread through Tokyo's sewers.

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What happens

The H-Man (美女と液体人間, Bijo to Ekitai-ningen; lit. 'Beauty and the Liquid People') is a 1958 Japanese science fiction thriller film directed by Ishirō Honda, written by Takeshi Kimura with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. It stars Kenji Sahara and Akihiko Hirata. It is the first film in Toho's Transforming Human Series, followed by The Secret of the Telegian and The Human Vapor (both 1960). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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