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b'Hello, kaiju lovers!\\nAn artsy Japanese horror film about mushrooms based on a British short story?\\nThat\\u2019s sounds insane enough to work!\\nDespite getting slapped with the schlocky English title, \\u201cAttack of the Mushroom People,\\u201d\\xa0Matango\\xa0ranks as one of director Ishiro Honda\\u2019s greatest achievements in tokustasu filmmaking. Screenwriter Takeshi Kimura considered it to be his magnum opus. It\\u2019s a story replete with subtlety and symbolism, an indictment of Japan\\u2019s newfound opulence and decadence in the early 1960s, and it\\u2019s as relevant now for any audience as it was back then. It\\u2019s such an important film, Nathan and his intrepid producer, Jimmy From NASA, interview the only scientist on Monster Island\\u2019s who\\u2019s brave and/or crazy enough to study the Matango\\u2014with frightening results!\\xa0\\nFeaturing Daniel DiManna as the voice of Dr. Dante Dourif.\\n\\n\\nEpisode image created by Michael Hamilton. Check out his podcast,\\xa0The Kaiju Groupie.\\nThis is meant to supplement this episode of Kaijuvision Radio:\\xa0Episode 45: Matango (Attack of the Mushroom People) (1963) (Westernization and Globalization)\\nWe\\u2019d like to give a shout-out to our Patreon patrons Travis Alexander and Michael Hamilton (cohosts of\\xa0Kaiju Weekly); Danny DiManna (Godzilla Novelization Project);\\xa0elizilla13; and Chris Cooke (host of\\xa0One Cross Radio)! Thanks for your support!\\nYou, too, can support us on\\xa0Patreon!\\nThis episode is approved by the Monster Island Board of Directors.\\nPodcast Social Media:TwitterFacebookInstagram\\nFollow Jimmy on Twitter:\\xa0@NasaJimmyFollow the Monster Island Board of Directors on Twitter:\\xa0@MonsterIslaBOD\\nwww.MonsterIslandFilmVault.com\\n#JimmyFromNASALives \\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 #MonsterIslandFilmVault\\n\\xa9 2020 Nathan Marchand & Moonlighting Ninjas Media\\nBibliography/Further Reading:\\n\\u201cAttack of the Mushroom People: Ishiro Honda\\u2019s\\xa0Matango\\xa0William Hope Hodgson\\u2019s \\u2018The Voice in the Night\\u2019\\u201d by Anthony Camara (Monsters and Monstrosity from the Fin de Si\\xe9cle to the Millennium, edited by Sharla Hutchinson and Rebecca A. Brown)\\n\\u201cThe history and current state of drug abuse in Japan\\u201d by Kiyoshi Wada (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Jan 2011, vol. 1216, no. 1, p 62-72)\\nIshiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa\\xa0by Steve Ryfle and Ed Godzisewski\\n\\u201cIshiro Honda-thon Ep. 5: Matango (1963) Review\\u201d by Adam Noyes (AN Productions) (YouTube)\\nKaijuvision Radio, \\u201cEpisode 8: King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)\\u201d\\n\\u201cMethamphetamine Solution: Drugs and the Reconstruction of Nation in Postwar Japan\\u201d by Miriam Kingsburg (The Journal of Asian Studies, Feb. 2013, vol. 72, no. 1, p. 141-162)\\nMushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men: The Fantastic Cinema of Ishiro Honda\\xa0by Peter H. Brothers\\nThe post Episode 21: \\u2018Matango\\u2019 (Mini-Analysis) appeared first on The Monster Island Film Vault.'