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* HowWeGotHere: [[spoiler:Kenji Murai in a mental hospital in Tokyo and visited by a group of doctors asking him about the events that led him there.]]


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* InconsistentDub: In the American International Television English dub released on television in 1965 as ''Attack of the Mushroom People.''

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--->[[spoiler:''"Masafumi Kasai, Kenji Murai, Etsurō Yoshida, Senzō Koyama, Mami Sekiguchi and Akiko Sōma. These six people have died. I tried to escape but ran out of food. I'll have to jump overboard. Skipper, Naoyuki Sakuta."'']]



-->'''Kenji''': [[spoiler: I wonder. Is it really any different in Tokyo? They're becoming inhuman. Just like [the island]. I would have been happier there.]]



** [[spoiler:Akiko. She got captured by the Matango and force-fed the mushrooms.]]

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** [[spoiler:Akiko. She got captured by the Matango and force-fed the mushrooms. Kenji tried to leave with her, but got overwhelmed by the Matango and escaped; leaving her behind.]]
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''Matango'', known in the US as ''Attack of the Mushroom People'', is a 1963 Japanese horror film from Creator/IshiroHonda, director of the original ''Film/{{Gojira}}''. It's an adaptation of a short story called [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160716094917/http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/voicenig.htm "The Voice in the Night"]] by Creator/WilliamHopeHodgson.

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''Matango'', known in the US as ''Attack of the Mushroom People'', is a 1963 Japanese horror film from Creator/IshiroHonda, director of the original ''Film/{{Gojira}}''.''Film/Godzilla1954''. It's an adaptation of a short story called [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160716094917/http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/voicenig.htm "The Voice in the Night"]] by Creator/WilliamHopeHodgson.

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* DwindlingParty: The film started with 7 people [[spoiler:and only one escaped the island.]]
**[[spoiler:Yoshida. During his search, he ate the mushrooms and start to go insane.]]
**[[spoiler:Sakuta. Betrayed the others by stealing the remaining food and the yacht. The yacht drifted back with a written message that Sakuta committed suicide by jumping overboard after he ran out of food.]]
**[[spoiler:Koyama. Shot by Yoshida during the latter's mutiny.]]
**[[spoiler:Mami. She ate the mushrooms after being exiled with Yoshida for participating the latter's mutiny.]]
**[[spoiler:Kasai. Tempted by Mami to eat the mushrooms, he tried to run from the Matango until he collapses from exhaustion, presumably to be either dead or changed slowly into a Matango himself.]]
**[[spoiler:Akiko. She got captured by the Matango and force-fed the mushrooms.]]



** Sakuta has little patience for his crew's tensions interfering with his work, and enjoys a fair reputation in sailor circles. [[spoiler:But he can't escape the island alone with the yacht, no matter how skilled he may be.]]

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** Sakuta has little patience for his crew's tensions interfering with his work, work and enjoys a fair reputation in sailor circles. [[spoiler:But he can't escape the island alone with the yacht, no matter how skilled he may be.]]


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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Kasai. After he got tempted by Mami to eat the mushrooms, Kasai was last seen trying to get away until he got surrounded by the Matango and collapse from exhaustion.]]

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* ILoveNuclearPower: The mushrooms may or may not have been mutated by the radiation experiments conducted by the research vessel.


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* NuclearMutant: The mushrooms may or may not have been mutated by the radiation experiments conducted by the research vessel.
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* MoneyIsNotPower: Variation. Yoshida is the richest man amongst the survivors, but he has had some of the worst luck when it comes to scavenging food. Kasai ends up exploiting this by selling him some of the food he hoarded at exorbitant prices.

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