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Film / 1968
The Sands of Kurobe
Directed by
Kei Kumai
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is …
The story
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is dying from leukemia.
Cast
Toshirō MifuneKitagawa
Yūjirō IshiharaIwaoka
Osamu TakizawaOtagaki
Takashi ShimuraAshimura
Shūji SanoHirata
Jūkichi UnoMori
Ryūtarō TatsumiGenzo
Isao TamagawaSayama
Takeshi KatōKunikida
Sumio TakatsuOno
Eijirō YanagiFujimura
Akira YamanouchiTsukamoto
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Akira TeraoKenichi
Eimei NitaniOdagiri
Masahiko NaruseKumada
Yuichi SaitoTakagi
Shinsuke Ashida
Eiji Okada
Kinzō Shin
Jōji Ehara
Eiken Shoji
Mizuho Suzuki
Sadao Mizutani
Takashi Koshiba
Katsu Yamamoto
Keisuke Yukioka
Toshinosuke Nagao
Tappei Shimokawa
Mugihito
Kōjirō Kusanagi
Masami Shimojō
Takashi Inagaki
Asao Sano
Michio Hino
Jushiro Hirata
Seiichi Taguchi
Yūzō Harumi
Tessen Nakahira
Hiroshi Chiyoda
Yoshihiko Tabata
Seishirō Iwate
Eisuke Izumi
Shirō Ōhama
Shosei Muto
Hyōe Enoki
Yoshisuke Makino
Hideji Ōtaki
Yoshiyuki Nemoto
Sonosuke Niki
Kenji Shimamura
Wataru Kobayashi
Hideaki Nitani
Hiroshi Chō
Takashi Nomura
Jun Miyazaki
Katsumasa Yamayoshi
Yoshinobu Ogawa
Daisuke Ōmi
Masayoshi Miyasaka
Tsuchiyasu Kinohara
Fumie Kashiyama
Tomoe Hiiro
Akira Kawaguchi
Mieko Takamine
Tanie Kitabayashi
Taketoshi Naitō
Masao Shimizu
Masaaki Okabe
Toshiaki Itō
Ninako Yamaguchi
Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi
Junnosuke HiramitsuNarrator
Masao Uchikura
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