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Overview
Release Date:
28 May 1959 (USA) moreTagline:
You'll Be Gripped By Unholy Horror When You Realize What H Really Means!Plot:
When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
More Terrifying than Alien for Some of Us moreCast
(Credited cast) | Yumi Shirakawa | ... | Chikako Arai, singer in the nightclub |
| Kenji Sahara | ... | Dr. Masada |
| Akihiko Hirata | ... | Inspector Tominaga |
| Koreya Senda | ... | Dr. Maki |
| Makoto Satô | ... | Uchida, gangstar |
| Yoshifumi Tajima | ... | Detective Sakata |
| Eitarô Ozawa | ... | Inspector Miyashita |
| Yoshio Tsuchiya | ... | Detective Taguchi |
| Kamayuki Tsubono | ... | Detective Ogawa |
| Tadao Nakamaru | ... | Detective Seki |
| Nadao Kirino | ... | Shimazaki, the waiter-thug |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Ryutaro Amami | ... | Detective |
| Ichirô Chiba | ... | GSDF Officer |
| Paul Frees | ... | Various Voices (voice) |
| Jun Fujiro | ... | Nishiyama, the dissolved gangstar |
| Kan Hayashi | ... | Police Officer |
| Kazuo Higata | ... | A drinker in the nightclub |
| Yoshiko Ieda | ... | Woman |
| Hisaya Ito | ... | Misaki, the dissolved gangster |
| Haruya Kato | ... | Mattchan |
| Shigeo Kato | ... | Matsu-chan |
| Akira Kichoji | ... | A drinker in the nightclub |
| Machiko Kitagawa | ... | Hanae, the neighbor of Chikako |
| Jiro Kumagai | ... | GSDF Officer |
| Akio Kusama | ... | Police Officer |
| Mitsuo Matsumoto | ... | Neighbor in Chikako's apartment house |
| Ko Mishima | ... | Kishi, gangster in nightclub |
| Haruo Nakajima | ... | Second dissolved sailor |
| Tetsu Nakamura | ... | Mr. Chin, gangster |
| Yutaka Nakamura | ... | An-chan |
| Toshiko Nakano | ... | Mrs. Okami, apartment manager |
| Yosuke Natsuki | ... | Man, witness on rainy day |
| Yutaka Oka | ... | Search party leader (GSDF) |
| Senkichi Omura | ... | First Dissolved Sailor (Let me try on the pants!) |
| Matsue Ono | ... | Madam, neighbor of Saeki's house |
| Shin Otomo | ... | Hamano, nightclub gangster |
| Yutaka Sada | ... | Taxi driver |
| Keiji Sakakida | ... | Old policeman |
| Koichi Sato | ... | Gangstar in nightclub |
| Mitsuru Sato | ||
| Akira Sera | ... | Horita |
| Naomi Shiraishi | ... | Mineko, Dr.Maki's assistant |
| Ayumi Sonoda | ... | Emi, the dissolved dancer |
| Masaaki Tachibana | ... | Nightclub manager |
| Katsumi Tezuka | ... | Captain of fishing boat |
| Shiro Tsuchiya | ... | Police Officer |
| Mitzuo Tsuda | ... | Police Officer |
| Soji Ubukata | ... | Police Officer |
| Akira Yamada | ... | Policeman Wakasugi |
| Minosuke Yamada | ... | Chief of Inspectors Kusuda |
| Ren Yamamoto | ... | Saeki, gangstar |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Beauty and the Liquidman (International: English title) (literal title)The H-Man (USA)
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Add content advisory for parentsRuntime:
87 min | USA:79 minCountry:
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JapaneseColor:
Color (Eastmancolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Perspecta Stereo (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)MOVIEmeter: 
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Yumi Shirakawa's singing voice (for the two songs in the film) is provided by noted Japanese jazz starlet Martha Miyake. moreQuotes:
Dr. Maki: [voice-over] If man perishes from the face of the Earth, due to the effects of hydrogen bombing, it is possible that the next ruler of our planet may be The H-Man. moreSoundtrack:
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Alien is suppose to now be the most terrifying Sci-Fi/Horror put out, but for those of us who saw The H-Man as young baby-boomers this one should get first prize.
The comments by others who were in elementary school at the time, pretty much says it all about being almost terrorized for weeks by nightmares and parents trying to sooth you before you could fall asleep at night. I still have an occasional dream about being tracked by one of these "liquid creatures". I would hope to see the movie again sometime to "embrace my fear" as an adult. Somethings in the psyche of a young child can hang around for decades, and for movies... this is one of them.
If Sony decides to buy up the rights on this one from Toho Productions for a Region 1 DVD release, they would do well to bundle it with the other early and under-rated classics like Rodan and The Mysterians. Unfortunately, as classic as Godzilla releases have been (more than my mind can count), it is time for something more unique and rare which has been passed over. I hope it happens.