Secret of the Telegian
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| Secret of the Telegian | |
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 Theatrical poster for The Secret of theTelegian (1960) |
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| Directed by | Jun Fukuda |
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Written by | Shinichi Sekizawa |
| Starring | Koji Tsuruta Akihiko Hirata Yoshio Tsuchiya Tadao Nakamaru Yumi Shirakawa Seizaburô Kawazu Sachio Sakai Yoshifumi Tajima |
| Music by | Sei Ikeno |
| Cinematography | Kazuo Yamada |
| Editing by | Kazuji Taira |
| Distributed by | Toho (Japan) Herts-Lion International Corp. (USA) |
| Release date(s) | April 10, 1960 (Japan) |
| Running time | 85 min. |
| Language | Japanese English |
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Secret of the Telegian (電送人間 Densô Ningen?, The Telegraphed Man) is a 1960 tokusatsu sci-fi/horror/mystery film. Produced by Toho Company, Ltd., the film was directed by Jun Fukuda (this was his first tokusatsu work), and written by Shinichi Sekizawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. When this color TohoScope film was originally brought to the US by Herts-Lion International Corp., it was inexplicably released in black and white.
Actor Tadao Nakamaru stars in the title role of Sudo, a disfigured former soldier left for dead in World War II by his greedy fellow soldiers years earlier. Under the alias of "Goro Nakamoto," and armed with a bayonet (the same weapon the soldiers had wounded him with), he uses the Clariotron, a device that can give its user the ability to electrically teleport anywhere from the chamber of an electric teleportation machine (invented by Professor Niki, who is unaware of its current use). Sudo vengefully uses the Clariotron to hunt down the soldiers (even teleporting after them when they hide) and kill them one by one, leaving an ID tag on the bodies of each of his victims. Hot on this mysterious murder case is reporter Kirioka (Koji Tsuruta) and detectives Onosaki (Yoshio Tsuchiya) and Kobayashi (Akihiko Hirata).
