Tômei Ningen to hae Otoko

Japan • 1957 • 96m •

• Directed by: Mitsuo Murayama. • Starring: Ryûji Shinagawa, Yoshirô Kitahara, Junko Kanô, Ikuko Môri, Jôji Tsurumi, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Shôzô Nanbu, Bontarô Miake, Ichirô Izawa, Shizuo Chûjô, Kyôko Anan, Teppei Endô, Tatsuo Hanagire. • Music by: Tokujiro Okubo.

Sugumoto finds a chemical to shrink a man into the size of a fly. He tries to use it for his venageance against those who framed him as a war criminal. Meanwhile, Tsukioka, a physicist, decides to be an invisible man to save the people from the terror of the Fly Man.

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There are a series of mysterious stabbing deaths in post war Tokyo. Yet no attacker was seen or could have gained entry. Police investigate. They find that the deaths are preceded by buzzing sounds. A group of Japanese scientists were working on cosmic ray research during war and one (Kuroki) feels he was sold out by the others. He spend 6 years in prison and wants to get even. He has a gas that shrinks humans to fly size so they can do his dirty work. Another Scientist has developed a ray that makes objects invisible. A cop uses it on himself and while invisible discovers what Kuroki is up to. But Kuroki finds out about the invisible ray and wants it. This is a film with good acting, audio and video quality. Even the fake cosmic ray lab is realistic. But it is all lost when we see the tiny shrunken man flying around in his business suit, without wings making buzzing sounds.

Review by steve-4335 from the Internet Movie Database.

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