The H-Man

1958 [JAPANESE]

Action / Crime / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 38% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 38% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 1832 1.8K

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Plot summary

When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where she works.

Director

Ishirô Honda Photo
Ishirô Honda

Top cast

Ren Yamamoto Photo
Ren Yamamoto as Saeki, gangster
Ayumi Sonoda Photo
Ayumi Sonoda as Emi, lead exotic dancer
Tadao Nakamaru Photo
Tadao Nakamaru as Detective Seki
Shin Yoshida Photo
Shin Yoshida as A drinker in the nightclub
720p.BluRay
724.95 MB
1280*720
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles jp  
24 fps
1 hr 18 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by transient52 7 / 10

Nightmares for weeks as a child

I saw this when it was first released in 1958 in Sydney. The theatre was a very large and cold cinema. The atmosphere of the environs only added to the atmosphere of the film. I was six at the time but I can still remember it fairly vividly today - nearly forty years later. It gave me nightmares for weeks. I always thought this was the movie that the Blob was based on although the release dates seem to be fairly close. This by far was the better movie of the two. I have seen this once again in my older years and it still resurrects memories of those childhood nightmares.I would love to be able to obtain a copy of the film but it seems these days no-one seems to know of it.
Reviewed by partnerfrance 6 / 10

Childhood nightmares

Like many other posters, I saw this film as a young boy and it gave me nightmares for weeks (maybe even months)! Luckily, my older brother finally convinced me that the "liquid creature" would not survive a swim from Japan to the United States and I was able to sleep again.I suspect that the modern age's Freddies, Jasons and Leatherfaces would not hold a candle to the effect that this film had on an impressionable youth back then. Perhaps the very fact that the monster had no tangible qualities and could theoretically be any puddle of water you came across was what gave it its fright value.It would certainly be interesting to see how a remake of this would play today.
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