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DESCRIPTION:FILM\nMatango (aka Attack of the Mushroom People)\nマタンゴ
 (Matango)\nFriday\, January 23\, 7 PM\n\n&lt;a href=&quot;https://tickets.japansoc
 iety.org/public/loader.asp?target=show.asp?shcode=217&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;\n&lt;em&gt;Matango&lt;/
 em&gt;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;copy\; 1963 Toho Co.\, Ltd. All Rights Reserved.\n\n&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a&gt;
 SYNOPSIS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a&gt;RELATED CONTENT &amp;amp\; EVENTS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;\n\nPro
 lific director Ishiro Honda made&amp;nbsp\;&lt;em&gt;Matango (aka Attack of the Mush
 room People)&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/em&gt;11 years after his iconic&amp;nbsp\;&lt;em&gt;Godzilla&lt;/em&gt;.
  Like that famous&amp;nbsp\;&lt;em&gt;kaiju&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/em&gt;film\,&amp;nbsp\;&lt;em&gt;Matango&lt;/em&gt;
 &amp;nbsp\;manages to be a highly entertaining genre film utilizing imaginativ
 e monster costumes while also engaging with social and moral commentary ab
 out contemporary Japan. A group of rich Tokyo elites - the benefactors of 
 the economic recovery of the 1960s -&amp;nbsp\; find themselves on a deserted 
 island after their yacht is shipwrecked. As circumstances become increasin
 gly difficult\, the moralities of the characters are tested as they strugg
 le to survive against the monstrous and radioactive mushroom species calle
 d &amp;ldquo\;Matango&amp;rdquo\; that infest the island. Hallucinatory sequences\
 , sexual tension and gripping suspense charge this colorful B-movie based 
 on William Hope Hodgson&amp;rsquo\;s 1907 short story &amp;ldquo\;The Voice in the
  Night&amp;rdquo\; (one of the stories printed in the anthology&amp;nbsp\;&lt;em&gt;Alfr
 ed Hitchcock Presents: 12 Stories They Wouldn&amp;rsquo\;t Let Me Do on TV&lt;/em
 &gt;).\n\n&lt;em&gt;1963\, 89 min.\, 35mm\, color\, in Japanese with English subtit
 les. Directed by Ishiro Honda. With Akira Kobai\, Hiroshi Koizumi\, Hirosh
 i Tachikawa\, Kenji Sahara\, Kumi Mizuno\, Miki Yashiro\, Yoshio Tsuchiya.
 &lt;/em&gt;\n\nThis 35mm print is from the collection of the National Film Cente
 r\, The National Museum of Modern Art\, Tokyo.\n\n&lt;strong&gt;TICKETS&lt;/strong&gt;
 \n$12/$9 Japan Society members\, seniors &amp;amp\; students\n&lt;a href=&quot;http://
 www.japansociety.org/page/support/individual&quot;&gt;Become a Japan Society Membe
 r&lt;/a&gt;\n&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/dark-side-o
 f-the-sun&quot;&gt;Part of&amp;nbsp\;&lt;em&gt;The Dark Side of the Sun: John Zorn on Japane
 se Cinema&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;
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SUMMARY:Matango (aka Attack of the Mushroom People)
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