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Matango: Art, Production & Reception

Matango (マタンゴ) is a 1963 Japanese horror film directed by Ishirō Honda. The film stars Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno and Kenji Sahara. Partially based on William Hope Hodgson's short story "The Voice in the Night", it centers on a group of castaways on an island who are unwittingly altered by a local species of mutagenic mushrooms.

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Matango topic overview

The analysis highlights Art, Production and Reception as prominent areas in the source structure around Matango.

Related topics
65
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
71
Extracted relationships
130
Related term clusters
20
Bridge connections
71

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Production · 19 topics
Reception · 15 topics
Overview · 10 topics
Release · 9 topics
Plot · 8 topics
Cast · 4 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Based on
"The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson
Cinematography
Hajime Koizumi
Country
Japan
Directed by
Ishirō Honda
Distributed by
Toho
Edited by
Reiko Kaneko

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Overview

Plot

Cast

Production

Release

Reception

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Advanced semantic analysis

How Matango connects Entity context

The extracted context around Matango shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Matango → Art, Assistant, Critic Bill Cooke, Director Ishirō Honda, Ed Godziszewski, Fantasy, Film, Godzilla, Hajime Koizumi, Honda's, Horror Films, Ikuno, Ishiro Honda, Japanese Science Fiction, King Kong, Koji Kajita, Kurosawa, Life, Mothra, Sadao Bekku Another extracted example is Matango → According, Actor Kubo, Camara, Carpenter, Director Steven Soderbergh, Filmmaker John Carpenter, Filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki, Fin, Honda, Japanese, Jason Barr, Millennium, Monsters, Monstrosity, New Essays, Nicolas Cage, Police, Rebel, Shozin Fukui's Pinocchio, Siecle. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Matango

Top relations

related to Filming · 28
Matango → Art, Assistant, Critic Bill Cooke, Director Ishirō Honda, Ed Godziszewski, Fantasy, Film, Godzilla, Hajime Koizumi, Honda's, Horror Films, Ikuno, Ishiro Honda, Japanese Science Fiction, King Kong, Koji Kajita, Kurosawa, Life, Mothra, Sadao Bekku
related to Aftermath and influence · 24
Matango → According, Actor Kubo, Camara, Carpenter, Director Steven Soderbergh, Filmmaker John Carpenter, Filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki, Fin, Honda, Japanese, Jason Barr, Millennium, Monsters, Monstrosity, New Essays, Nicolas Cage, Police, Rebel, Shozin Fukui's Pinocchio, Siecle
related to Reception · 20
Matango → Asian, Body Snatchers, Cooke, English, Galbraith, Honda, Honda's, In Leonard Maltin's, Initially, Invasion, Ishiro Honda, Japan, Japan's, Japanese, Lucas, Maltin, Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo, Monthly Film Bulletin, Sixties, Toho's
related to Cast · 18
Matango → Akiko SōmaJiro Kumagai, Akira Kubo, Doctor, Etsurō YoshidaYoshio Tsuchiya, Mami SekiguchiKenji Sahara, Masafumi KasaiHiroshi Koizumi, MatangoHaruo Nakajima, MatangoKuniyoshi Kashima, MatangoKōji Uruki, MatangoMasaki Shinohara, MatangoTokio, MatangoToku Ihara, Naoyuki SakudaMiki Yashiro, Professor Kenji MuraiKumi Mizuno, Senzō KoyamaHiroshi Tachikawa, Tokyo Medical CenterHideyo Amamoto, Tokyo Medical CenterKeisuke Yamada, Tokyo Medical CenterYutaka Oka
related to Release · 13
Matango → American International Television, Attack, August, English-dubbed, Hiroshima, Honda, Honda's, Japan, Japanese, Mushroom People, Nagasaki, Toho, United States
Starring · 5
Matango → Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Kenji Sahara, Kumi Mizuno, Yoshio Tsuchiya
has effect · 4
Matango → Honda's, Oxberry, Toho, United States
Based on · 1
Matango → "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson
Cinematography · 1
Matango → Hajime Koizumi
Country · 1
Matango → Japan

Important terminology

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Important terminology

film mushrooms murai films kasai honda release toho story horror tokyo island honda's japanese japan yoshida mushroom people yacht akiko

Matango relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 130 structured relationships around Matango. Examples in this analysis include Matango → Based on → "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson and Matango → Cinematography → Hajime Koizumi. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
MatangoBased on"The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson1.00infobox
MatangoCinematographyHajime Koizumi1.00infobox
MatangoCountryJapan1.00infobox
MatangoDirected byIshirō Honda1.00infobox
MatangoDistributed byToho1.00infobox
MatangoEdited byReiko Kaneko1.00infobox
MatangoLanguageJapanese1.00infobox
MatangoMusic bySadao Bekku1.00infobox
MatangoProduced byTomoyuki Tanaka1.00infobox
MatangoProduction companyToho Co., Ltd1.00infobox
MatangoRelease dateAugust 11, 1963 (1963-08-11) (Japan)1.00infobox
MatangoRunning time89 minutes1.00infobox
MatangoScreenplay byTakeshi Kimura1.00infobox
MatangoStarringAkira Kubo1.00infobox
MatangoStarringKumi Mizuno1.00infobox
MatangoStarringKenji Sahara1.00infobox
MatangoStarringHiroshi Tachikawa1.00infobox
MatangoStarringYoshio Tsuchiya1.00infobox
MatangoStory byShinichi Hoshi Masami Fukushima1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Matango bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Release, Tokyo and Toho. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • horror film
    • Films
    • Japanese
    • Honda
    • Matango
    • Film
    • Horror
    • Book
    • Honda's
    • Creatures
    • Described
    • Japan
    • Noted
  • mothra (film)
    • Matango
    • Horror
    • Films
    • Honda's
    • Honda
    • Noted
    • Released
    • Video
    • Described
    • United
    • Television
    • Japan
  • godzilla (1954 film)
    • Matango
    • Horror
    • Films
    • Honda's
    • Honda
    • Noted
    • Released
    • Video
    • Described
    • United
    • Television
    • Japan
  • monthly film bulletin
    • Matango
    • Horror
    • Films
    • Honda's
    • Honda
    • Noted
    • Released
    • Video
    • Described
    • United
    • Television
    • Japan
  • ishirō honda
    • Horror
    • Japanese
    • Production
    • Also
    • Group
    • Matango
    • Described
    • Release
    • Story
    • Films
    • Kenji
    • Based
  • the voice in the night (short story)
    • Group
    • Story
    • Mami
    • Yacht
    • Akiko
    • Production
    • Tokyo
    • Yoshida
    • Kubo
    • Also
    • Book
    • One
  • Matango
    • Release
    • Tokyo
    • Toho
    • Kubo
    • States
    • United
    • Book
    • Noted
    • Video
    • Described
    • Story
    • Murai
  • matango
    • Release
    • Tokyo
    • Toho
    • Kubo
    • States
    • United
    • Book
    • Noted
    • Video
    • Described
    • Story
    • Murai

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Matango, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Matango with Production. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Matango — Production · splits 52 ⟂ 20
Matango — Reception · splits 56 ⟂ 16
Matango — Overview · splits 61 ⟂ 11
Matango — Release · splits 62 ⟂ 10
Matango — Plot · splits 63 ⟂ 9
Matango — Cast · splits 67 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Matango

Nodes72
Edges71
Triples130
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027778
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Matango to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Art, Production & Reception, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Matango · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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