The Sands of Kurobe

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The Sands of Kurobe (1968)

Directed by Kei Kumai

Drama · 3h 16m

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.

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Cast

Toshirō Mifune Kitagawa Yūjirō Ishihara Iwaoka Osamu Takizawa Otagaki Takashi Shimura Ashimura Shūji Sano Hirata Jūkichi Uno Mori Ryūtarō Tatsumi Genzo Isao Tamagawa Sayama Takeshi Katō Kunikida
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Sumio Takatsu Ono Eijirō Yanagi Fujimura Akira Yamanouchi Tsukamoto

Crew

Director
Kei Kumai
Screenplay
Masato Ide, Kei Kumai
Director of Photography
Mitsuji Kanau
Original Music Composer
Toshirō Mayuzumi
Editor
Mutsuo Tanji
Producer
Akira Nakai

Details

Original title
黒部の太陽
Release date
1968-03-01
Runtime
3h 16m
Genres
Drama
Original language
JA
Spoken languages
Japanese
Countries
Japan
Production
Ishihara Productions, Mifune Productions