Lucky Dragon No. 5

The story

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship's navigator sees a flash. All the crew come up to watch. They realize it is an atomic explosion, but take time to clear their fishing gear. A short time later, grey ash starts to fall on the ship. When the ship returns to port the sailors have been burned brown. They unload the fish, which are then transported away. They visit the local doctor and then go to Tokyo for an examination. It turns out they are all highly radioactive. Their symptoms become worse, and the contaminated fish causes a panic.

Cast

J Jūkichi UnoManakichi Kuboyama N Nobuko OtowaShizu Kuboyama E Eitarō OzawaGovernor K Koreya SendaDr. Kinoshita T Taiji Tonoyama M Masao Mishima T Taketoshi Naitō I Ippei Souda H Harold Conway K Kikue Mōri Y Yasushi Nagata K Kappei Matsumoto

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Y Yoshio Inaba T Torahiko Hamada T Tomo'o Nagai M Masao Shimizu Y Yasumi Hara K Kōji Mitsui Z Zenpei Saga Z Zeko Nakamura S Shin Morikawa H Hisao Toake P Peter Williams M Masanori Takeda S Shojiro Ogasawara S Someshō Matsumoto T Ton Shimada K Keizo Sasagawa I Ippei Kawashima T Teruo Matsuyama S Shōji Ichimura K Keiko Tama R Reiko Niimura R Ruriko Hitomi H Hisako Hara C Chiyoko Komine K Kunie Tanaka