Beauty and the Liquid People

Directed by
Hideo Maritime (Original Screenplay
 Music by
 Budget

Beauty and the Liquid People (also known as Beauty and liquid human and The H-Man) is a 1958 toho thriller film, Directed by Ishirō Honda.

## Plot

A mysterious incident occurred in downtown Tokyo, where it rains lightly. A man who stole the drug took off all the clothes he was wearing, not to mention the stolen goods, and disappeared without a trace. The man turned out to be a drug trafficking gangster Misaki. He had a woman named Chikako, a popular singer of the cabaret "Homura". One day, before Chikako, a scholar named Masada who majored in biochemistry appeared. He asks if Misaki was at sea before and after the hydrogen bomb test. In addition, a gangster who pursues the whereabouts of drugs that Misaki seems to have concealed was also aiming for Chikako. One of them, Nishiyama, boarded her apartment and threatened him, but he also disappeared when he was suddenly dissolved in a human-shaped liquid that appeared. Masada was shocked to hear the moment he witnessed from Chikako. Then, I guided Tominaga Investigative Section 1 to a hospital. There were two men lying in the bed, who had suffered from the atomic bombing. At the time of the hydrogen bomb test, they passed by the Second Ryujin Maru, who was reported missing in the southern sea, and transferred to the ship with their friends, but they were knocked down one after another by a liquid like a human-shaped creature, and only two of them. It is said that he finally ran away. The bizarre incident is the work of this "liquid human". Investigators and scientists attempted to eradicate it with a special flamethrower. Around that time, Uchida, a member of the drug troupe who took out Chikako as a messenger of Masada, proceeded to a manhole where drugs were hidden. I'm thinking of making drugs and Chikako into things. Masada, who was a little different, hurried to the scene. Uchida was defeated by a liquid human who suddenly appeared in the sewer. Chikako is also dangerous. The science team who arrived at that time saved the crisis by pouring gasoline into the sewer and defeating a liquid human with a special flamethrower. The liquid humans that appeared in Tokyo became extinct. However, when the earth is covered with fallout and humankind is annihilated, liquid humans may rule the earth and build their civilization.

## Cast

* Chikako Arai ("Homura" singer): Yumi Shirakawa
* Masata (Associate Professor, Joto University): Kenji Sahara
* Tominaga Investigation Division One: Akihiko Hirata
* Detective General Manager Miyashita: Eitaro Ozawa
* Dr. Maki: Koya Senda
* Gang: Yoshi Sato (Uchida), Hisaya Ito (Misaki)
* Hanae (Hostess of "Homura"): Machiko Kitagawa
* Detective Taguchi: Yoshio Tsuchiya
* Mineko (Maita's assistant): Naomi Shiraishi
* Kishi (Member of Hanada): Ko Mishima
* Detective Sakata: Yoshifumi Tajima
* Gold (drug buyers): Satoshi Nakamura
* Second Ryujinmaru Sailors: Haruya Kato (Mune Chan), Chikichi Omura (Ochan)
* Emmy ("Homura" Dancer): Ayumi Sonoda
* Metropolitan Police Department Executive: Miki Hayashi
* Kusunoda (General Manager of Criminal Department): Junnosuke Yamada
* Hanada: Jun Fujio (Nishiyama), Ren Yamamoto (Saiki)
* Hotta (sailor of the second Ryujin Maru): Seraaki
* Detective Seki: Tadao Nakamaru
* Abec: Yosuke Natsuki , Yoshiko Ieda
* Anji (sailor of the second Ryujin Maru): Yasuhiro Shigenobu
* Wakasugi: Akira Yamada
* Shimazaki ("Homura" Boy, Gang): Hiroo Kirino
* Taxi driver hitting a liquid human: Yutaka Sada
* Hamano (Hanada): Shin Otomo
* Metropolitan Police Department executives: Seki Iki , Mitsuo Tsuda
* Member of Hanada: Yutaka Nakayama
* Detective Ogawa: Kamayuki Tsubono
* Matsutchan (Second Ryujinmaru sailor): Shigeo Kato
* SDF Rescue Captain: Yutaka Oka
* Fire Chief: Shoichi Hirose
* Deputy Chief of Operations Headquarters: Nira Kumagai
* Metropolitan Police Department executives: Kusama Hirio (Suzuki), Tsuchiya Shiro
* Second Ryujinmaru Sailor: Katsumi Tezuka
* Chousuke (sailor of Dairyujinmaru), liquid human: Haruo Nakajima [2nd role]

* Manager's Lady: Toshiko Nakano
* Kami next door: Matsue Ono
* Sailors of the Second Ryujin Maru: Hiroshi Aki  , Norinori Ihara
* Sailor of the second Ryujin Maru, Drunk of "Homura": Arata Yoshida [2]
* "Homura" Club Manager: Masaaki Tachibana
* Drunks of "Homura": Akira Kichijoji
* "Homura" drunkards, attendees of countermeasure meeting: Kazuo Hikata [2 roles]
* Dr. Maki's Assistant: Ikuo Kawamura
* Headquarters police officer: Eisuke Nakanishi
* Detective: Minoru Ito  , Koji Uruki
* Sato (gang): Koichi Sato

## Staff

* Production: Tomoyuki Tanaka
* Original: Hideo Maritime
* Screenplay: Takeshi Kimura
* Photo: Hajime Koizumi
* Art: Takeo Kita
* Recording: Choshiro Mikami, Masanobu Miyazaki
* Lighting: Tsuruzo Nishikawa
* Music: Masaru Sato
* Special technology
* Photography: Shuzaburo Araki , Sadamasa Arikawa
* Art: Akira Watanabe
* Lighting: Masao Shirota
* Synthesis: Hiroshi Mukaiyama
* Director Assistant: Koji Kajita
* Editing: Hiraichi
* Development: Toyo Developer
* Producer: Teruo Maki
* Special skill director: Eiji Tsuburaya
* Director: Ishirō Honda
* Steel: Matsuzaki Yoshio

## Titles

* The H-man (Worldwide title)
* Beauty and the Liquid People (Japanese title)
* Beauty and liquid human (Japanese: 美女と液体人間 Japanese title)
* The H-Man and The H-Man (Japanese title)
* The H-Man vs Liquid Human [1]
* The He-Man (France title)
* The Horror Creeps Through Tokyo (Germany)

## Release

"The H-Man" was distributed theatrically in Japan by Toho on June 24, 1958. The film was released theatrically in the United States by Columbia Pictures with an English-language dub and 79 minute running time. The film was a double feature with The Woman Eater (1959) and released on May 28, 1959.

Columbia released The H-Man on VHS. The film was released on DVD in 2009 in the United States.

### U.S. release

"The H-Man" was released by Columbia Pictures in the United States in 1959. Columbia cut approximately eight minutes of footage from the film in order to improve the pacing and remove some of the less convincing special effects shots. The American cut of the film also removed any mention of the H-Men retaining their human memories.

In 1987, Columbia renewed their license for the film and retains the American distribution rights to this day. In 2009, it released the original Japanese cut of The H-Man, as well as the American edit, through Sony on DVD in a triple feature with Mothra and Battle in Outer Space.

## Production

The original Japanese version of the film focuses a similar amount of time on the drug-running criminals as the activities of the *H-Men*. This was cut in the American film.

### Filming

the camera man was Choshichiro Mikami, the Gunpowder used in the film was by Hisazo Yamamoto, Editor was Kazuji Taira and Special modeling was by Teizou Toshimitsu.

## Gallery

#### Japanese Posters

Original Theatrical release posterOriginal Japanese Theatrical release poster