The Sands of Kurobe

Top 10 Billed Cast

Toshirō Mifune
三船敏郎

Kitagawa

Yūjirō Ishihara
石原裕次郎

Iwaoka

Osamu Takizawa
滝沢修

Otagaki

Takashi Shimura
志村喬

Ashimura

Shūji Sano
佐野周二

Hirata

Jūkichi Uno
宇野重吉

Mori

Ryūtarō Tatsumi
辰巳柳太郎

Genzo

Isao Tamagawa
玉川伊佐男

Sayama

Takeshi Katō
加藤武

Kunikida

Sumio Takatsu
Sumio Takatsu

Ono

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1968-03-01

  • Average

    7

  • Rating:

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    日本語
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