# The Human Vapor (1960)

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**Original title**: *ガス人間第一号*
**Runtime**: 92 min
**Genres**: Science Fiction, Crime, Thriller
**Directed by**: Ishirō Honda
**Written by**: Takeshi Kimura, John Meredyth Lucas
**Starring**: Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kaoru Yachigusa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Keiko Sata, Bokuzen Hidari, Yoshibumi Tajima

> *Half Human! Half Beast! It Destroys! It Kills!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Pale blue dawn over the Ginza’s neon haze, a single coffee cup rattling on a train platform.

A librarian kneels in the stacks, coughs vapor, then towers above Tokyo as living mist.

Honda’s 1960s cautionary folly turns crime into a spectral waltz—until bullets shatter the dream.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult, surreal

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