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Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959)

Directed by Kaneto Shindō

Overview

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru (“Lucky Dragon No. 5”) sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship’s navigator sees a flash. All the crew come up to watch. They realize it is an atomic explosion, but take time to clear their fishing gear. A short time later, grey ash starts to fall on the ship. When the ship returns to port the sailors have been burned brown. They unload the fish, which are then transported away. They visit the local doctor and then go to Tokyo for an examination. It turns out they are all highly radioactive. Their symptoms become worse, and the contaminated fish causes a panic.

Length 107 minutes

Actors

Jukichi Uno | Nobuko Otowa | Eitarô Ozawa | Koreya Senda | Taiji Tonoyama | Masao Mishima | Taketoshi Naitô | Ippei Souda | Harold Conway | Kikue Môri | Yasushi Nagata | Kappei Matsumoto | Yoshio Inaba | Torahiko Hamada | Tomo'o Nagai | Masao Shimizu | Yasumi Hara | Kôji Mitsui | Zenpei Saga | Zeko Nakamura | Shin Morikawa | Hisao Toake | Peter Williams | Masanori Takeda | Shojiro Ogasawara | Someshô Matsumoto | Ton Shimada | Keizo Sasagawa | Ippei Kawashima | Teruo Matsuyama | Shôji Ichimura | Keiko Tama | Reiko Niimura | Ruriko Hitomi | Hisako Hara | Chiyoko Komine