Review of The H-Man

The H-Man (1958)
5/10
The Good the Bad and the Liquefied!
8 July 2011
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILES*** One of the strangest and bizarre of all the monsters coming out of the Japanese Toho Studios in 1950's the H-Man unlike Toho monsters Godzilla and Rodan is totally indescribable in it changing it's shape like a "Silly Puddy" every few seconds when it's on the screen. The H-Man dubbed because it was the results of a US Military H-Bomb test is the South Pacific comes across like the Blob and a giant serving of lime Jello in it's attacking anyone in it's way and turning them into a greenish color liquid when it gets through with them.

It's Dr. Masada , Kenji Sahara, who discovers just what this H-Man is and what he's up too but his conclusions are so off the wall that no one in the Tokyo Police Department believes him. We had added into the movie a plot involving Japanese mobsters pushing drugs who unwittingly get involved with the H-Man in their attempt to get pretty night club singer Chikako Arai, Yumi Shirakawa, to tell them where her gangster boyfriend Misaki, Hisaya Ito, is whom they suspect took off with their monthly heroin supply. After a number of people around the Tokyo end up being liquefied by the H-Man Tokyo Police Inspector Tominaga, Akihiko Hirata, is finally convinced in what Dr. Masada has been telling him about this radioactive blob of green and blue goo and call out the Japanese Army to put an end to it's reign of terror once and for all. Things get a bit complicated when gangster Uchida, Makato Sato, makes believe by taking off his clothes and leaving them in public that the H-Man did him in by getting Uchida liquefied. It's then that Uchida kidnaps Chikako and takes her into the Tokyo sewer system in order to both get his hands on the missing heroin that her liquefied boyfriend Miski hid there as well as hold her as insurance, or hostage, in getting out of the country before the police get a bead,by realizing that he's in fact alive, on him.

***SPOILERS*** With the Japanese military setting the Tokyo sewer system on fire Dr. Masada risks his life to save Chikako as her kidnapper Uchida ends up getting liquefied, this time for real, by the H-Man as he tries to make his escape from the police. Spectacular final with all of Tokyo, or it's sewer system, on fire with the H-Men, there are now two of them, evaporating in the flames and Dr. Masada saving Chikako's life before the flames and heat get to both of them.
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