The Sands of Kurobe (1968)
3h 16m
Running Time
March 1, 1968Release Date
The Sands of Kurobe (1968)
3h 16m
Running Time
March 1, 1968Release Date
Plot.
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 & Crew.
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
Sumio Takatsu
Ono
Eijirō Yanagi
Fujimura
Akira Yamanouchi
Tsukamoto
Akira Terao
Kenichi
Eimei Nitani
Odagiri
Masahiko Naruse
Kumada
Yuichi Saito
Takagi
Junnosuke Hiramitsu
Narrator
Kei Kumai
Director / Screenplay
Akira Nakai
Producer
Masayoshi Kobayashi
Production Design
Mutsuo Tanji
Editor
Naoki Katagiri
Assistant Director
Masao Yamazaki
Production Design
Tōtetsu Hirakawa
Production Design
Toshirō Mayuzumi
Original Music Composer
Mitsuji Kanau
Director of Photography
Mitsuharu Hirata
Lighting Technician
Sōjirō Motoki
Original Story
Masato Ide
Screenplay
Kenichi Benitani
Sound Recordist
Tetsuo Yasuda
Sound Recordist
Masayoshi Miyasaka
Daisuke Ōmi
Takashi Nomura
Hiroshi Chō
Hideaki Nitani
Wataru Kobayashi
Kenji Shimamura
Sonosuke Niki
Shirō Ōhama
Eisuke Izumi
Takashi Inagaki
Tsuchiyasu Kinohara
Fumie Kashiyama
Tomoe Hiiro
Akira Kawaguchi
Mieko Takamine
Tanie Kitabayashi
Taketoshi Naitō
Masao Shimizu
Masaaki Okabe
Toshiaki Itō
Ninako Yamaguchi
Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi
Masami Shimojō
Kōjirō Kusanagi
Mugihito
Tappei Shimokawa
Toshinosuke Nagao
Keisuke Yukioka
Katsu Yamamoto
Takashi Koshiba
Sadao Mizutani
Mizuho Suzuki
Eiken Shoji
Jōji Ehara
Kinzō Shin
Eiji Okada
Shinsuke Ashida
Masao Uchikura
Seishirō Iwate
Yoshihiko Tabata
Yoshinobu Ogawa
Katsumasa Yamayoshi
Jun Miyazaki
Yoshiyuki Nemoto
Hideji Ōtaki
Yoshisuke Makino
Hyōe Enoki
Shosei Muto
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
The Sands of Kurobe (黒部の太陽, Kurobe no Taiyō) is a 1968 Japanese drama film directed by Kei Kumai.
It is an adaptation of the novel The Sun of Kurobe (黒部の太陽; Kurobe no Taiyō) that dramatizes the construction of the massive Kurobe Dam, the tallest dam in Japan. The film was Japan's submission to the 41st Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. Produced by its stars Toshiro Mifune and Yujiro Ishihara, the film's first run in cinemas lasted for a month, significantly longer than the week or ten days that films at that time usually ran in Japan.
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