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01/11/ · Чудовищный снежный человек / Monster Snowman / Half Human: the Story of Abominable Snowman / Ju Jin Yuki Otoko (Исиро Хонда / Ishiro Honda) [, Япония, Half Human. ‘獣人雪男’ (Edited into) Half Human, Ju Jin Yuki Otoko Genres. science-fiction horror. 94 mins More at IMDb TMDb Report this film. Share. Popular reviews More. 25/03/ · Half Human, original Japanese version w/ English subs by Toho Co., Ltd Publication date Topics kaiju, Bigfoot, Yeti, Toho, Godzilla, King Kong, cryptid, Half Human (Jūjin Yuki Otoko (獣人雪男)) is a tokusatsu film directed by Ishirō Honda in The film was re-edited and dubbed in English in a U.S. release version called Half Half Human. ‘獣人雪男’ (Edited into) Half Human, Ju Jin Yuki Otoko Genres. science-fiction horror. 94 mins More at IMDb TMDb Report this film. Share. Copy URL to Clipboard ... read more
Due to several factors, Jû jin yuki otoko "Beast Man Snow Man" is one of the most difficult Toho productions to find in its original form. For starters, it was pulled from circulation by the company itself because it contains what they feel is an offensive depiction of native villagers as dumb, inbred, dirty and deformed, which some feel could be seen as a jab at either the indigenous Ainu People or the burakumin, an outcast group descended from workers in "impure" or death-related trades. Second, the full version of the film was never released here in America in English. Instead, it ended up in the hands of producer Robert B.
Crane THE MANSTER to create a new version. Crane scrapped over half of the original footage and partially replaced that with around 20 minutes worth of new scenes starring John Carradine and Morris Ankrum. Narration by Carradine was added and the original Masaru Satô soundtrack was also replaced by a "new" generic canned music score and sound effects. To give you an idea of how much was actually cut, the original film runs about 94 minutes while the U. version titled Half Human runs just That's 30 minutes shorter, not even accounting for everything else that was cut to make room for the new scenes. Doing the math, that leaves about just 45 minutes of the original film in the U. It usually played on the bottom half of a double bill with Monster from Green Hell Reporter Kodama Yasuhisa Tsutsumi shows up at a remote train station to look into a mysterious "recent incident" that occurred in the mountains.
He's directed to a shaken student named Takeshi Iijima Akira Takarada. Feeling he can't even adequately put into words what's occurred, Takeshi hands the reporter a bunch of notes taken by one of his ill-fated peers, which start out describing "a terrifying incident unparalleled in human history" and then make mention of a "monster. Among them are Takeshi, lone female Michiko Momoko Kôchi and Michiko's older brother, Takeno Tadashi Okabe. After a long day of skiing, everyone decides it's time to head back to the lodge except for Takeno and another student, Kaji Akira Yamada , who want to visit a local named Mr.
Gen first. Soon after, there's a terrible blizzard the worst seen there in years , followed by a massive avalanche ditto. And then there's a scary phone call to the lodge, with screaming, gunshots and some kind of animal noise coming from the other end. Nakata and Kaji never make it back to the lodge. A search party later finds Gen's place ransacked, strange footprints, patches of fur and both Gen and Kaji dead. But still no sign of Takeno. He also beats her viciously with a stick. Chika goes off on her own up the mountain to nurse her injuries. Sitting alone on a rocky path, she runs into Ōba and his henchman. She mistakes them from members of Koizumi's party out looking for Takashi. Ōba seizes the opportunity to try to worm his way into the girl's trust.
He trades her a shiny silver ring for some information on where the Snowman can be found. The gift of the ring persuades her and Chika marks the spot for Ōba by throwing a stone across the valley. Meanwhile, the Snowman is on his way back to its cave, with a freshly killed deer over his shoulder, when he sees Takashi hanging off a cliff by a rope. The beast calmly puts down the deer, pulls Takashi back up, unties his hands, shoulders the deer again and walks off without a second glance. Ōba and his men lug their traps and equipment up the mountain to the creature's lair. But when they get there, they make an astonishing discovery: there is a juvenile Snowman playing by the cave entrance.
Ōba's eyes light up with fiendish inspiration: they will trap the young Snowman and use it as bait to capture the adult! The Snowman comes back a little while later and is horrified to find the cave empty. As he searches frantically for the little creature, Ōba's men remove the gag from the juvenile's mouth; its cries bring the Snowman storming back out of the cave. A heavy net falls on it, trapping the creature, and Ōba's men use chloroform to knock him out. Back in the village, Chika is still being punished for breaking the rules; and in the course of her punishment, her grandfather finds the ring. Chika admits that she has told the outsiders about the Snowman's lair. The old man and the other villagers arrive at the cave just in time to see Ōba preparing the unconscious beast for transport. When the old chief tries to intervene, Ōba shoots him. Terrified, the remaining villagers can do little more than jeer impotently and throw stones as the outsiders drag the Snowman away.
The young creature has managed to slip out of his bonds and run away. Ōba is at first too excited by capturing the adult creature, and later too busy fending off the locals, to notice that the little beast has escaped. But the young creature has no intention of running away. When the truck carrying the Snowman starts off down the mountain, the juvenile springs onto the platform and works at undoing the ropes. Ōba finds himself the last surviving human as the adult creature begins to break his way out of the cage. In the chaos that results, Ōba ends up killing the juvenile Snowman. The adult grabs Ōba and throws him to a gruesome death.
With its offspring dead, the Snowman, enraged and full of grief, runs back to the village and destroys it. Takashi makes it back to the camp and tells his story to his companions. The Snowman is then heard approaching their camp. The beast grabs Machiko while she is adding logs to the fire. The next day, the expedition spots smoke in the distance. They find the smoldering remnants of the village and Chika. Chika tells them about what happened and Takashi asks her where the Snowman's cave is. She then leads them to the cave. There, they find the bones of Kiyoshi, as well as the fragments of his journal. According to the last, fragmentary journal entries, Kiyoshi had been tracking the creature when he was caught in an avalanche. The Snowman had actually tried to save Kiyoshi's life, giving the injured man food and shelter. Going further into the cave, the party finds a large pile of bones of other Snowmen.
Koizumi finds poisonous mushrooms growing near the bones and speculates that eating these mushrooms may have killed off the Snowman population. The creature storms in with Machiko over his shoulder. They chase the beast further into the cave, until it stops by a pit of boiling sulfur. Chika comes to the rescue, attacking the Snowman with her knife; she distracts the creature enough that Takashi is able to get a clear shot at it. The mortally wounded Snowman grabs Chika and drags her down with him as he plunges into the sulfur pit to certain death. The cast from the Japanese version of the film are taken from the official Ishirō Honda website. The cast from the American version of the film are taken from The Japanese Filmography: through Personnel taken the official Ishirō Honda website.
Before Godzilla had been released, Toho had already planned its next monster movie with Honda attached to direct it. Writer Shigeru Kayama was hired to write the original script and completed his treatment on October 16, Honda went to Tokyo to shoot Half Human' s scenes with snow and on returning found that special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya was busy working on Godzilla Raids Again , which put Half Human on hold while Honda began filming Mother and Son. Half Human was released in Japan by Toho on August 14, , as a double feature with Three Brides for Three Sons. For the American version of the film, the American company Distributors Corporation of America DCA added English-language scenes and narration.
Crane on two different sets over the course of two days. for filming. Honda biographers Ryfle and Godziszewski noted that, though the film was "not Honda's best work", the original Japanese version is far superior to the more widely seen American version of the film. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Akira Takarada Momoko Kochi Akira Takarada Akemi Negishi Sachio Sakai Nobuo Nakamura. Release dates. Running time. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise.
Momoko Kôchi The Girl as Momoko Kouchi. Kenji Kasahara Murdered Skier uncredited. Shigeo Katô Villager uncredited. Akio Kusama Buraku Man uncredited. Kokuten Kôdô Old Tribe Leader uncredited. Nobuo Nakamura Prof. Tanaka uncredited. Yutaka Nakayama Thug, Oba's men uncredited. Rinsaku Ogata Mountain Guide uncredited. Sachio Sakai Third Member of Ski Party uncredited. Ren Yamamoto Shinagawa, alpine club member uncredited. Kenneth G. More like this. Storyline Edit. Did you know Edit. Trivia Closing credits epilogue: The segments of this picture depicting Japanese people and locales were written and filmed in Japan. Special credit is due the artists and technicians there who contributed much to the authenticity of this production. Quotes Prof. Connections Edited from Jû jin yuki otoko User reviews 12 Review.
Featured review. Edited with a hatchet, by the looks of it. HALF HUMAN was originally a Japanese monster flick from Toho before US distributors got their hands on it and proceeded to mutilate it. In doing so, they exercised about half of the original footage, added in a sappy voice-over narration, and included lots of extraneous scenes with American actors. I'm a fan of John Carradine but he has a nothing role as the desk-bound professor. Obviously this kind of cut-and-paste nonsense had worked with GODZILLA - another film directed by Ishiro Honda - but it's a waste of time here, because the viewer only gets the occasional glimpse of goodness from the original Japanese footage.
I won't attempt to review that here, only to say that there's a lot of action and incident, and the Yeti costume looks great; I hope to track down the original film at some point to check it out properly.
Three competing parties all race again time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman. Akira Takarada Akemi Negishi Momoko Kôchi Nobuo Nakamura Sachio Sakai Yoshio Kosugi Kenji Kasahara Toshitsugu Suzuki Ren Yamamoto Akira Sera Yasuhisa Tsutsumi Tadashi Okabe Akira Yamada Fuminori Ôhashi Takashi Itô Ichirô Chiba Kokuten Kōdō Takuzō Kumagai Shigemi Sunagawa Senkichi Ômura Shigeo Katô Akio Kusama Keiichirô Katsumoto Tsurue Ichimanji Kyôko Ozawa Akira Kitchôji Hiroshi Akitsu Rinsaku Ogata Kamayuki Tsubono Show All… Etsuo Saijo Shôichi Hirose Kihachi Okamoto Ryûtarô Amami Kenzo Echigo Toku Ihara Kawamata Kiichi Eisuke Nakanishi Jirô Suzukawa Masaaki Tachibana Hideo Ôtsuka Haruo Nakajima Yasumasa Ônishi Akira Tani Yutaka Nakayama Kazuo Hinata. Takeo Murata Shigeru Kayama. science-fiction horror. A Walk Amongst Monsters This is definitely a infamous one. It starts off well with the story being told in flashback by a group of wounded people with moody rain and a somber atmosphere.
We hear a gruesome murder committed over a telephone and discover strange footprints in the snow. It takes 40 minutes for a glimpse of the snowman and the rest is padded with scenes of walking and…. Honda's followup to Godzilla is the least known of his Kaiju works, largely because it was deliberately buried by Toho after its release. There's a good reason for that, namely that its depiction of Burakumin can certainly be described as culturally insensitive, if not outright derogatory. Living near…. What started as a fun little "don't mess around on the mountain during a snow storm" type movie, ended up turning into a darker story about societal outcasts and man's exploitation of nature. Or I'm overthinking it. Either way, I liked it and loved the dark ending. An elusive "kaiju" film due to its offensive depiction of native tribes. The reason I use quotes is because the abominable snowman creature is hardly bigger than the people.
Not to mention the repeated abuse to one of their own. Starting out, the film actually captured me fairly well. There's an eerie atmosphere surrounding the rainy meeting and the snowy mountains in the following story told. It plays out like a good Japanese horror film, building up tension. Sadly, that tension fizzles out after the first act, as we begin an…. Daikaijourney: The Best of the Beasts. Half Human is most notable for being one of the earliest kaiju films by Toho studios and for its self-imposed ban for housing a racist portrayal of burakumin as barbaric savages. Think of them as similar to the untouchables caste in Indian society, basically the lower-class folk who were pushed to the rural outskirts of Japan.
Other than the isolated snowy mountain setting, it's a well-trod tale of mankind trying to pull nature out of its habitat kicking and screaming and everyone suffering the consequences of that hubris. You can really tell Toho had been hankering for those King Kong rights a long while before they'd have him square off with Godzilla in ' Before watching this movie, I was super excited to see it. First of all, I love Toho SFX films and I have a huge interest in cryptids such as Bigfoot, so you can imagine how excited I was to watch this movie, however I was very disappointed. It starts off really good and atmospheric, although once it gets to the second act, it just goes down hill. There are some instances in the…. Made a year after Ishirō Honda smashed Japan to smithereens with Godzilla , Half Human or Monster Snowman is a much less earth-shattering affair. It doesn't help that the only prints of the Japanese version of this film are borderline unwatchable.
The film floats about in a weird state of semi-nonexistence, as Toho locked down its own property after concerns about its racism toward the Burakumin people. Pretty silly considering how later Toho properties would feature far worse racism. Free from its surrounding historical importance and controversy, Half Human is an okay but ultimately unremarkable watch. We get a somewhat sluggishly told Abominable Snowman story that if cut to seventy minutes would have been a banger. There are some really cool…. One of the most elusive kaiju films of all time and up there with Prophecies of Nostradamus in terms of infamy, Half-Human was Ishirō Honda's second stab at the genre after hitting the ground running with Godzilla the previous year.
While Godzilla continues to be celebrated long after its release, this one is perhaps best left forgotten to time. A news reporter arrives to interview them about the experience, and Takeshi Iijima begins to recall the events Review by cody. a pervasive, tragic atmosphere clouds the mountain retreat like a sickly fog that refuses to dissipate, and this much is wonderful, and even moving, but for every inclined step, there's an equal and opposite descent into either problematic depictions or sluggish bends, making this difficult to recommend in good faith. Toho Company pulled it from circulation sometime in the 80s I believe so the only way you can actually watch it is bootleg copies or somewhere online.
The reason for this self imposed ban has been allegedly due to its depiction of native tribes in a less then savory manner. Well, yes and mostly no. Every native except the main native woman are shown to be dirty, seemingly deformed and…. although the muddled point here is really that "civilized" society is capable of just as much violence and savagery as that of the inbred, disfigured "natives" who worship a pissed-off Yeti itself just protecting its child. Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps.
Posters are sourced from TMDb and Posteritati , and appear for you and visitors to your profile and content, depending on settings. Learn more. Where to watch. Cast Akira Takarada Akemi Negishi Momoko Kôchi Nobuo Nakamura Sachio Sakai Yoshio Kosugi Kenji Kasahara Toshitsugu Suzuki Ren Yamamoto Akira Sera Yasuhisa Tsutsumi Tadashi Okabe Akira Yamada Fuminori Ôhashi Takashi Itô Ichirô Chiba Kokuten Kōdō Takuzō Kumagai Shigemi Sunagawa Senkichi Ômura Shigeo Katô Akio Kusama Keiichirô Katsumoto Tsurue Ichimanji Kyôko Ozawa Akira Kitchôji Hiroshi Akitsu Rinsaku Ogata Kamayuki Tsubono Show All… Etsuo Saijo Shôichi Hirose Kihachi Okamoto Ryûtarô Amami Kenzo Echigo Toku Ihara Kawamata Kiichi Eisuke Nakanishi Jirô Suzukawa Masaaki Tachibana Hideo Ôtsuka Haruo Nakajima Yasumasa Ônishi Akira Tani Yutaka Nakayama Kazuo Hinata. Director Ishirō Honda. Tomoyuki Tanaka. Shûichi Anbara.
Tadashi Iimura. Tatsuo Kita. Eiji Tsuburaya. Masaru Satō. Studio Toho. Edited into Half Human, Ju Jin Yuki Otoko. Genres science-fiction horror. A Walk Amongst Monsters 45 This is definitely a infamous one. Hooptober 8. Catch it here if youre curious: archive. Daikaijourney: The Best of the Beasts Half Human is most notable for being one of the earliest kaiju films by Toho studios and for its self-imposed ban for housing a racist portrayal of burakumin as barbaric savages. Upgrade to remove ads. Tell me about Pro. Select your preferred poster. Remove custom poster Save changes.
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25/03/ · Half Human, original Japanese version w/ English subs by Toho Co., Ltd Publication date Topics kaiju, Bigfoot, Yeti, Toho, Godzilla, King Kong, cryptid, Jû jin yuki otoko: Directed by Ishirô Honda. With Akira Takarada, Akemi Negishi, Momoko Kôchi, Nobuo Nakamura. A yeti terrorizes people on top of Mount Fuji Japanese Abominable Snowman movie from cut up and narrated by horror icon John Carradine to some fellow Americans, all of whom smoke throughout. The creature is meant to Half Human. ‘獣人雪男’ (Edited into) Half Human, Ju Jin Yuki Otoko Genres. science-fiction horror. 94 mins More at IMDb TMDb Report this film. Share. Copy URL to Clipboard 01/11/ · Чудовищный снежный человек / Monster Snowman / Half Human: the Story of Abominable Snowman / Ju Jin Yuki Otoko (Исиро Хонда / Ishiro Honda) [, Япония, Half Human. ‘獣人雪男’ (Edited into) Half Human, Ju Jin Yuki Otoko Genres. science-fiction horror. 94 mins More at IMDb TMDb Report this film. Share. Popular reviews More. ... read more
Back to top. Going further into the cave, the party finds a large pile of bones of other Snowmen. Amazon Ignite Sell your original Digital Educational Resources. Customer reviews. Carl Jordan. All the people involved went on to much better things in the tokusatsu genre, but this is an interesting stepping stone. Technical specs Edit.
All Titles TV Episodes Celebs Companies Keywords Advanced Search. They find the smoldering remnants of the village and Chika. An elusive "kaiju" film due to its offensive depiction of native tribes. This copy has had the time code digitally removed, but you can still see a small blurry area in the top center of the screen where the time code used to be. The Snowman comes back a little while later and is horrified to find the cave empty.
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