The Sands of Kurobe

Overview

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.

Directed by Kei Kumai

Top 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

S

Sumio Takatsu

Ono

Eijirō Yanagi

Fujimura

Akira Yamanouchi

Tsukamoto

Akira Terao

Kenichi

E

Eimei Nitani

Odagiri

M

Masahiko Naruse

Kumada

Y

Yuichi Saito

Takagi

Shinsuke Ashida

Eiji Okada

Kinzō Shin

J

Jōji Ehara

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