Movie List Monster Bios Aliens & SDF Staff of Toho Actors DVDs Soundtracks Video Games Books Comic Books Animation Television Box Office Pictures Concept Art Cutting Room News Release Dates Articles Reviews Media Forums Search Site Staff Credits Updates	International Title: Varan Japanese Title: Great Monster Varan US Title: Varan the Unbelievable Alternate Title: -   Production: Toho Distributor: Toho Japan Release Date Japan Running Time 1958 87 Minutes   US Distributor: Crown International US Release Date US Running Time 1962 70 Minutes Staff Directed by Ishiro Honda Writing credits Ken Kuronuma, Shinichi Sekizawa Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka Music by Akira Ifukube Cinematography by Hajime Koizumi Film Editing by Kazuji Taira Production Design by Kiyoshi Shimizu Production Management Shotaro Kawakami Assistant Director Koji Kajita Special Effects Photographer Teisho Arikawa Director of Special Effects Eiji Tsuburaya Art Director Akira Watanabe Cast Kenji Kozo Nomura Yuriko Ayumi Sonoda Horiguchi Fumito Matsuo Dr. Sugimoto Koreya Senda Kusama, Military Officer Akio Kusama Katsumoto, Military Officer Yoshio Tsuchiya Dr. Fujimora, Special Dynamite Founder Akihiko Hirata Secretary of Defense Minosuke Yamada Dr. Majima, Sugimoto's aide Fuyuki Murakami Ken Takashi Ito Ken's Mom Fumiko Honma Village Priest Akira Sera Ichiro, Yuriko's brother Hisaya Ito Yutaka Wada Nadao Kirino Issaku Akira Yamada Jiro Yoshikazu Kawamata Sankichi Yasuhiro Kasanobu Captain Yoshifumi Tajima Monster Appearances Aliens, SDF, Misc Varan, Godzilla (Stock Footage Mistake) M24 Chaffee Tank, F86F Saber Jet, Missile Launcher Trucks, Sikorsky S-51 Helicopter, P2V-7 Neptune, 155mm Howitzer M1 (stock footage), Landing Craft Stock Footage Other Points of Interest Godzilla, Godzilla Raids Again N/A DVDs Region 1 Varan the Unbelievable Tokyo Shock (2005) Region 2 Great Monster Varan Toho (2005) Reviews  Staff    Anthony Romero (7/20/2003) Score: 1.5/5    Miles Imhoff (8/07/2005) [Crown] Score: 0.5/5  Users    -
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