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)

3:16 (196 min)

Drama

Japan

6.7/10
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Production

Ishihara Productions, Mifune Productions

Release date

1 March 1968

Director

Kei Kumai

Scenario

Masato Ide

Composer

Toshirō Mayuzumi

Producer

Akira Nakai

Actors

Kitagawa

Iwaoka

Otagaki

Ashimura

Hirata

Jūkichi Uno

Mori

Ryūtarō Tatsumi

Genzo

Isao Tamagawa

Sayama

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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.