Invisible Man (1954)

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The invisible Man (also known as The Invisible Avenger) is a 1954 Toho Mystery film, Directed by Motoyoshi Oda.

## Plot

A strange death car accident occurred on the streets of Tokyo.The deceased claimed in his suicide note that he was a member of the transparent man task force that was secretly tested at the end of the Second World War, From the contents of the suicide not, it was found that there was at least one more survivor of the transparent human being. As soon as this case was reported, robbery cases by a gang group calling themselves "transparent humans" occurred frequently. Meanwhile, Nanjo, who works as a sandwich man 's clown in the cabaret "Kurofune," promised to buy a music box for " Jeanie with the Light Brown " for a blind girl, Mari, who lives in the same apartment . Komatsu, a newspaper reporter who has been investigating transparent humans since he encountered his first suicide, looks at Nanjo, who is visiting a jewelry store that has been attacked. Komatsu gets into Nanjo's room and sees an amazing sight there. The reason Nanjo always dresses as a clown-because he is another transparent person. Nanjo begins an independent investigation with the cooperation of Komatsu in order to defile his honor and uncover the identity of the gangster who killed Mari's grandfather. As a result of their investigation, it turns out that the mastermind behind the gang case is inside the "Kurofune".

## Cast

* Seizaburo Kawazu   as   Takamitsu Nanjo / Invisible Man Nanjo
* Miki Sanjo   as   Michiyo, the singer
* Minoru Takada   as   Yajima, gang boss
* Yoshio Tsuchiya   as   Reporter Komatsu
* Kenjiro Uemura   as   Ken
* Kamatari Fujiwara   as   Mariko's grandfather
* Fuyuki Murakami   as   Chief Editor Yamada
* Sonosuke Sawamura   as   Nomura, Dietman
* Seijiro Onda   as   Chief of Metropolitan Police
* Shin Otomo   as   Detective
* Noriko Shigeyama   as   Nightclub dancer
* Keiko Kondo   as   Mariko, young girl
* Haruo Suzuki   as   Man in nightclub
* Masao Mizuno   as   Joe
* Haruo Nakajima   as   Invisible Man Akita
* Akira Sera   as   Man at street stand
* Yutaka Oka   as   TV Announcer
* Shôichi Hirose   as   Policeman
* Yasuhisa Tsutsumi   as   Jewelry Shop Manager
* Jiro Kumagai   as   Otsuka
* Minoru Ito   as   Man in car (traffic accident)
* Keiko Mori   as   Woman in car (traffic accident)

## Staff

* Directed by   Motoyoshi Oda
* Written by   Shigeaki Hidaka and Kei Beppu
* Produced by   Takeo Kita
* Executive producing by   Tatsuo Kuroda
* Music by   Kyosuke Kami
* Cinematography by   Eiji Tsuburaya
* Edited by   Shuichi Anbara
* Production design by   Teruaki Abe
* Assistant directing by   Teruo Maru and Tetsuhiro Kawasaki
* Special effects by   Eiji Tsuburaya
* Based on the novel The Invisible Man by   H. G. Wells

## Titles

* The Invisible Avenger (Worldwide Title)
* The Invisible Man (Original Japanese release title)
* The Transparent Man (Worldwide title)
* Transparent Man (Worldwide title)
* Transparent World (Chinese title)

## Production

*The Invisible Man* was shot in black-and-white at academy ratio. The special effects were directed by Eiji Tsuburaya. David Kalat noted that Tsuburaya's special effects in *Tomei Ningen* were "clever but sparingly used."

## Release

The Invisible Avenger was distributed in Japan by Toho on December 29, 1954. Any release of the film in the United States is undetermined.

Daiei Film produced two similar films featuring invisibility, Tomei ningen arawaru (The Transparent Man) in 1949, and Tomei ningen to Hai-Otoko (Transparent Man vs the Fly-Man) in 1957.

### U.S. release

the film was originally released in the United States on December 2, 1958 as The Invisible Avenger Distributed by Republic Pictures the films runtime was shortened to 60 minutes with new american added cast it was under the tagline of ''Shadow man".

### English dub

the film was dubbed over in a forgotten Video release in the United States.

## DVD

* On October 1, 1997 laser disc was released from Toho video  .
* It was released on February 23, 2007.
* It was re-released as <Limited Price Edition> on February 7, 2014.
* It was re-released as <Toho DVD Masterpiece Selection> on July 15, 2015.
* It is scheduled to be reissued on October 10, 2018 as the final volume of Kodansha "Godzilla & All Monsters DVD Magazine".

## Gallery

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