The Sands of Kurobe (1968)
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.
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
Eijirō Yanagi
Fujimura
Akira Yamanouchi
Tsukamoto
Akira Terao
Kenichi
Shinsuke Ashida
Eiji Okada
Kinzō Shin
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