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The movie _Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People_ is a very creepy 1963 movie
in which fungus causes the transformation of humans into, indeed, Mushroom
People. Google translate is no help and one search translated _" Matango"_
into "Attack of the Mushroom People" which seems wrong to me. Google just
translates it into English as _" matango"_ which is not very helpful.

The movie is based on a turn of the 20th century short story which is called
_The Voice in the Night_ and I am wondering if the original title is somehow
related to the word.

I find here: <https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Matango#Name> that the name is based
on the name of a fungus which is called "mamadango" but this might be made up.
It does make it seem less likely that the title is related to the original
short story.
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Literal meaning of マタンゴ?
The origin of the word 'matango' is mentioned in the film's pamphlet, which
refers to a real mushroom called 'mamadango'. This is a reference to the
Fukushima dialect 'mamadango', which refers to tuchiguri or tanukino-
chabukuro.
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