Overview

A group of military personnel transporting a hydrogen bomb are left to figure out how and why swarms of killer bugs took down their plane; the answer is more deliriously nihilistic, and convoluted, than they could imagine.

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Music
Music by Shunsuke Kikuchi
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Details

Director: Kazui Nihonmatsu
Writers: Susumu TakakuWriter
Kingen AmadaStory
Original title: 昆虫大戦争
Status: Released
Release date: November 9, 1968
Original language: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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Cast

Keisuke SonoiYoshito Nagumo
Yūsuke KawazuJoji Akiyama
Emi ShindōYukari Akiyama
Reiko HitomiJunko Komura
Eriko SonoNagumo’s assistant
Toshiyuki IchimuraSeborey Kudo
Tadayoshi UedaTsuneo Matsunaga
Hiroshi AoyamaToru Fujii
Hideaki KomoriYokoi
Chico LourantCharlie
Kathy HoranAnnabelle
Ralph JesserLieutenant Colonel Gordon
Franz GruberDoctor
Kazuya TatekabeCharlie (voice)
Gorō NayaLieutenant Colonel Gordon (voice)
Harold ConwayCommander
William DouyuakCorrespondent
Mike DaneenAircraft Captain
Saburo AonumaDetective