The Sands of Kurobe

Name: The Sands of Kurobe
Genre: Drama
Released: 1968-03-01
Duration: 3 h 16 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Yūjirō Ishihara, Osamu Takizawa, Takashi Shimura, Shūji Sano

黒部の太陽 (1968)

Timing: 3:16 (196 min)

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Release date

1968-03-01

Country

Japan

Production

Mifune Productions, Ishihara Productions

Genre

Drama

Budget

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Director

Kei Kumai

Actors

Toshirō Mifune, Yūjirō Ishihara, Osamu Takizawa, Takashi Shimura, Shūji Sano, Jūkichi Uno, Ryūtarō Tatsumi, Isao Tamagawa, Takeshi Katō, Sumio Takatsu
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Producer

Akira Nakai

Operator

Mitsuji Kanau

Composer

Toshirō Mayuzumi

Artist

Masayoshi Kobayashi, Masao Yamazaki, Tōtetsu Hirakawa

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Editing

Mutsuo Tanji
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Short description

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.