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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman (1957)
Directed by Ishirō Honda, Kenneth G. Crane
“1400 pounds of frozen fury that moves like man! Half-man, half-beast but all monster!”
Horror, Science Fiction · 1h 03m
An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote tribe as a god, and how it was discovered by modern man after it raided a skiers shelter following an avalanche, killing all inside. This is an adaptation of the Japanese film "Jūjin Yuki Otoko" (1955) with added American-made footage, narration, and music.
Cast
John Carradine
Dr. John Rayburn
Momoko Kôchi
The Girl
Akira Takarada
The Boy (Her Brother)
Akemi Negishi
The Mountain Girl
Russell Thorson
Prof. Philip Osborne
Robert Karnes
Prof. Alan Templeton
Morris Ankrum
Dr. Carl Jordan
Sachio Sakai
Third Skier
Nobuo Nakamura
Prof. Tanaka
Kokuten Kōdō
Mountain Tribe Leader
Yoshio Kosugi
Circus Owner
Shōichi Hirose
Crew
- Director
- Ishirō Honda, Kenneth G. Crane
- Screenplay
- Takeo Murata
- Director of Photography
- Lucien N. Andriot, Tadashi Iimura
- Original Music Composer
- Masaru Satō
- Editor
- Kenneth G. Crane, Shûichi Anbara
- Producer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
Details
- Original title
- 獣人雪男
- Release date
- 1957-05-17
- Runtime
- 1h 03m
- Genres
- Horror, Science Fiction
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Japanese
- Countries
- United States of America, Japan
- Production
- Distributors Corporation of America (DCA), TOHO