Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka read Unagami's story and he and Toho greenlit a script, but Unagami tragically died from a heart attack in November 1957.Īfter Hideo Unagami died, Takeshi Kimura was hired to adapt Unagami's story into a screenplay, while Ishiro Honda was chosen as the director. The idea for The H-Man came from actor Hideo Unagami, who when acting in The Mysterians in 1957 wrote a story proposal called The Liquid Man Appears (液体人間現る, Ekitai Ningen Genru), about a liquid human created by the radiation from the hydrogen bomb. Both gets out of the sewer in time as the flames burn all the H-Men, ending their reign of terror. Uchida is killed by an H-Man, and Arai is rescued by Masada. Masada finds a piece of Arai's clothing floating in the water and rushes into the sewers to rescue her. Meanwhile, Uchida has kidnapped Arai and taken her into the sewers to retrieve the stash of drugs. Having witnessed the carnage, Inspector Tominaga and others devised a plan to use a high voltage discharge unit to stop the H-Men's infiltration upstream by lighting Tokyo's sewer system on fire. Once inside, the gangsters try to escape through the window, but the H-Man appears, dissolving the waiter and Emi, and later Detective Sakata. That night, the police goes to the cabaret and made arrests, but Uchida, one of the gangsters, is tipped off by the gangster waiter and retreats to dancer Emi's room. They go to the police station again with their findings and Arai's testimony, where she also agrees to lead police to the gang at the cabaret. Maki dubs this liquid creature the H-Man. Maki, at the medical institute and tells him she also witnessed a man (Nishiyama) dissolving, leaving his clothes behind. The frog melts almost immediately, all of its cells transforming into a liquid creature.Īrai later visits Masada and his superior, Dr. Masada next shows the detectives the test effects of radiation poisoning the fishermen were exposed to on a frog. Masada arrives at the police station and invites Inspector Tominaga and Detective Sakata to his medical institute to hear the testimony of a group of fishermen, who allegedly witnessed some of their crew members fall victim to a liquid creature, disintegrating them and leaving their clothes behind. In the morning, the police take Arai in for questioning, but gets no new information from her. Arai screams and the police investigates, looking outside Arai's bedroom window and finding only a pile of clothes and a gun on the floor. However, Arai doesn't know, and Nishiyama leaves by the window, followed by gunshots. That night, Nishiyama of a drug smuggling gang sneaks into Arai's apartment and threatens her, asking her where Misaki is. He theorizes to the police Misaki's disappearance is the result of his physical form melting away due to exposure to radiation in the rain that night. She gives him a note to take to Misaki, but is confiscated and taken into custody by the police. Arai is a singer at a cabaret, and meets Masada, a Jyoto University professor, there. The police go to his apartment to investigate, questioning his girlfriend, Arai Chikako, who says Misaki hasn't returned home for five days. On a rainy night in the outskirts of Tokyo, a drug smuggler, Misaki, is killed while trying to escape in a getaway car, leaving only his clothes behind. ( September 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed.
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