Movielogr
The Sands of Kurobe (1968)
Directed by Kei Kumai
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.
Length 196 minutes
Actors
Toshirō Mifune | Yûjirô Ishihara | Osamu Takizawa | Takashi Shimura | Shûji Sano | Jukichi Uno | Ryutaro Tatsumi | Isao Tamagawa | Takeshi Katô | Sumio Takatsu | Eijirô Yanagi | Akira Yamauchi | Akira Terao | Eimei Nitani | Masahiko Naruse | Yuichi Saito | Shinsuke Ashida | Eiji Okada | Kinzô Shin | Jōji Ehara | Eiken Shoji | Mizuho Suzuki | Sadao Mizutani | Takashi Koshiba | Katsu Yamamoto | Keisuke Yukioka | Binnosuke Nagao | Tappei Shimokawa | Mugihito | Kôjirô Kusanagi | Masami Shimojô | Takashi Inagaki | Asao Sano | Michio Hino | Jushiro Hirata | Seiichi Taguchi | Yûzô Harumi | Tessen Nakahira | Hiroshi Chiyoda | Yoshihiko Tabata | Seishirô Iwate | Eisuke Izumi | Shirô Ôhama | Akio Muto | Hyôe Enoki | Yoshisuke Makino | Hideji Ôtaki | Yoshiyuki Nemoto | Sonosuke Niki | Kenji Shimamura | Wataru Kobayashi | Hideaki Nitani | Hiroshi Chô | Takashi Nomura | Jun Miyazaki | Katsumasa Yamayoshi | Yoshinobu Ogawa | Daisuke Omi | Masayoshi Miyasaka | Tsuchiyasu Kinohara | Fumie Kashiyama | Tomoe Hiiro | Akira Kawaguchi | Mieko Takamine | Tanie Kitabayashi | Taketoshi Naitô | Masao Shimizu | Masaaki Okabe | Toshiaki Ito | Ninako Yamaguchi | Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi | Junnosuke Hiramitsu | Masao Uchikura