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Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959)
Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Drama · 1h 47m
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
Jūkichi Uno
Nobuko Otowa
Eitarō Ozawa
Koreya Senda
Taiji Tonoyama
Masao Mishima
Taketoshi Naitō
Ippei Souda
Crew
- Director
- Kaneto Shindō
- Screenplay
- Kaneto Shindō, Yasutaro Yagi
- Director of Photography
- Eikichi Uematsu, Takei Dai
- Original Music Composer
- Hikaru Hayashi
- Producer
- Tengo Yamada, Hisao Itoya, Setsuo Noto, Kazuo Wakayama
Details
- Original title
- 第五福竜丸
- Release date
- 1959-02-18
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- English, Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Kindai Eiga Kyokai, Shinseiki Productions, Daiei Film