Human being

Directed by
 Budget

The Human Being (also known as The Secret of the Telegian) is a 1960 toho horror film,Directed by Jun Fukuda.

## Plot

The first murder occurred in an amusement park. The victim could not confirm the broker Tsukamoto and the criminal. Kirioka, a reporter for science at Toto Shimbun, was interested in the incident when he discovered a small wire-like object in the culprit's belongings. According to Dr. Miura of the Institute of Technology, the object is a cryotron, a kind of vacuum tube that should be replaced by a transistor in the future, which is subtle, but it has the drawback that it must maintain a low temperature of 42 degrees Celsius. The second murder in front of Kirioka deepened Kirioka's interest. The victim was in possession of a murder voucher on the former Army's vow, Taka, the owner of the cabaret of the army. Kirioka, along with his colleague Inspector Kobayashi, chased the criminal into a warehouse in Shibaura, but raised his hand and lost it. From the burn, a cooling machine that turns a mysterious cylinder was discovered. Kirioka discovered an unexpected fact by visiting Onishi and Taki, who were in the same unit as the two victims during the military era. At the end of the war, Dr. Niki, a military scientist, and Onishi, Taki, Takashi, and Tsukamoto, who were ordered to hide their research documents, concealed the bullion as a document, but they noticed it and the guards. I buried Sudo alive. However, a year later, the two corpses disappeared, including the gold nuggets. The remaining two believed that Dr. and Sudo were alive, the murder was Sudo's revenge. When Kirioka found out that Dr. Niki's research was near completion, he looked for a large orderer for cooling machines. Kirino, who finally found out that Nippon Seiki had delivered a large amount to a man named Goro Nakamoto in Karuizawa, happened to accompany an employee heading to Karuizawa to repair it and headed to Kotani Ranch in Karuizawa. Around that time, an alert network was set up around Kofu Falls, which received the third murder notice. The designated murder time was between half past one and twelve o'clock. Nakamoto, who welcomed Kirino and Akiko, guided them to the bedroom at 10 o'clock night, and entered himself. Nakamoto reappeared at twelve o'clock, but Nakamoto's alibi was complete regarding the third murder that was scheduled in Kofu. When I surrounded the Kotani Farm, I could not see Nakamoto, and Dr. Niki completed the object transfer machine in the machine room for nine minutes, and was half-collared. Nakamoto was still Sudo. Onishi who received the fourth murder notice Hidden on his home island. Immediately after they left for the island, Sudo appeared in front of Dr. Niki and strangled him.

## Cast

* Masaru Kirioka (reporter of the Toto Shimbun Faculty of Arts and Sciences): Koji Tsuruta
* Akiko Nakajo (Nippon Seiki Sales Department employee): Yumi Shirakawa
* Masayoshi Onishi (President of Hainan Trading): Kiyosaburo Kawazu
* Chief Investigator Okazaki: Yoshio Tsuchiya
* Goro Nakamoto (Captain Sudo): Tadao Nakamaru
* Inspector Kobayashi: Akihiko Hirata
* Kajuro Niki (Doctor of Electrical Engineering): Takamaru Sasaki
* Takamasa (Cabaret owner): Yoshifumi Tajima
* Miura (Doctor of Electrical Engineering): Fuyuki Murakami
* Father of Thriller Show: Ikuo Sawamura
* Waterfall (Building): Chio Sakai
* Tsukamoto (broker): Shin Otomo
* Detective Marune: Ren Yamamoto
* Shimura (reporter of Toto Shimbun): Fumindo Matsuo
* Manager of Kotobukiso: Kiyomi Mizunoya
* Grandma 's grandmother ( Gensan 's wife): Makoto Mano
* Otoyoshi (Fisherman in Koshinojima): Chikichi Omura
* Honda next seat: Yutaka Sada
* Genzo (Fisherman in Koshinojima): Seraaki
* Hainan Trading Employees: Hideyo Tenmoto , Shoichi Hirose , Hiroo Kirino
* Principal Tamagawa: Shiro Tsuchiya
* Thriller Show Customers: Nira Kumagai
* Kofu Police Officer: Koji Iwamoto
* Inspector: Tadashi Okabe
* Ohno (Cabaret Boy): Yutaka Nakayama
* Truck driver: Koji Uno
* Ida (Desk of Toto Shimbun Faculty of Arts): Tatsuo Matsumura
* Reporter for the Toto Shimbun Faculty of Arts and Science : Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
* Kofu Police Station Chief: Kuro Sakurai
* Tomiko (Female Cabaret): Rumi Konishi
* Ghost of the Evil: Akira Kitano
* Cabaret Boy: Toshio Miura
* Toto Shimbun's waitperson: Yasuhiko Saijo
* Thriller Show Guest (Schoolgirl): Akemi Ueno
* Yumiko (employee of Nihon Seiki): Toshiko Higuchi
* Watchman (Tama River Garden): Yasuhiro Shigenobu
* Florist Delivery: Yasuo Tsuchiya
* Metropolitan Police Department Director: Junichiro Mukai
* Detective informing Onishi's disappearance: Mitsuo Matsumoto
* Police Officer: Hideo Shibuya
* Kotani Farm Police Officer: Yukiyuki Uemura

### Uncredited

* Customers coming out of the devil's cave: Yasuzo Ogawa
* Guests of the Thriller Show: Yoshie Kihira  , Kiyoshi Kodama  , Eisuke Nakanishi
* Thriller Show Guest (Schoolgirl): Terumi Oka
* Ghost of the Ghost: Minoru Ito
* Reporters: Yutaka Oka  , Ryoji Shimizu  , Junnosuke Suda
* Forensic personnel: Masaaki Tachibana
* Cabaret Boy: Kazuo Hikata
* Policeman driving police car: Ikuo Kawamura
* Policeman climbing a telephone pole: Rin Ogata
* Police Officer Killed: Shigeno Sunagawa
* Truck Driver: Masayuki Shinohara
* Kotani Farm Police Officer: Yoshio Katsube
* Policeman driving a jeep: Kenzo Echigo
* Koshinojima Police Officer: Yukihiko Gondo  , Haruo Nakajima.

## Staff

* Production: Tomoyuki Tanaka
* Script: Shinichi Sekizawa
* Photo: Kazuo Yamada
* Art: Hamauebei
* Recording: Yoshio Nishikawa, Masanobu Miyazaki
* Lighting: Tsuruzo Nishikawa
* Music: Shigeru Ikeno
* Special shooting
	+ Optical photography: Shuzaburo Araki
	+ Photo: Sadamasa Arikawa
	+ Art: Akira Watanabe
	+ Lighting: Kuichiro Kishida
	+ Drawing synthesis: Hiroshi Mukaiyama
* Assistant Director: Taku Nagano
* Edit: Kazuji Taira
* Development: Toyo Developer
* Producer: Park Morimoto
* Special skill director: Eiji Tsuburaya
* Director: Jun Fukuda

## Titles

* Human Being (Original Japanese release title)

* Electrical Transmission Human ( Japanese title)
* The Secret of the Electric Man (O Segredo do Homem Elétrico; Brazil)
* The Telegian (alternate English title)
* The Electrical Facsimile (alternate English title)
* Transmission Man (alternate English title)
* The Telegraphed Man (alternate English title)
* The Secret of the Telegian (Original Worldwide release title)
* Transfer Human (Translated Japanese title)

## Overview

A mysterious thriller directed by Jun Fukuda of "A Terrible Fire Play" based on the screenplay of Shinichi Sekizawa from "The Underground Confrontation". The photo was taken by Kazuo Yamada from "The Underground Confrontation". Special skill director, Eiji Tsuburaya. Perspector stereophonic sound.

## Release

Human being was released in Japan on April 10, 1960, in color and TohoScope.

### U.S. release

Human Being was dubbed into English by a company in Hong Kong, with a voice cast that included actor Ted Thomas voicing Detective Kobayashi.

Editions of the *Los Angeles Times* from July 19-23, 1961, list the film as playing in the Toho La Brea Theater, presumably in Japanese with English subtitles, as the English dubbed version bears a later 1963 copyright date.

The North American theatrical distribution rights for *The Secret of the Telegian* were acquired by Herts-Lion International Corp. in 1964. Though Herts-Lion initially planned to release the film theatrically, it ultimately decided to simply release a black-and-white print of Toho's international English dubbed version of the film to television in 1964.

## DVD

* Released by Toho on May 27, 2005  . The audio commentary is Tadao Nakamaru  .
* On February 7, 2014, it was re-released as <Limited Price Edition>.
* It was re-released as <Toho DVD Masterpiece Selection> on July 15, 2015.