Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959)
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.
Director:
Kaneto Shindō
Writers:
Kaneto Shindō, Yasutaro Yagi.
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Jūkichi Uno as Manakichi Kuboyama |
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Nobuko Otowa as Shizu Kuboyama |
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Eitarō Ozawa as Governor |
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Koreya Senda as Dr. Kinoshita |
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Taiji Tonoyama as |
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Masao Mishima as |
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Taketoshi Naitō as |
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Ippei Souda as |
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Harold Conway as |
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Kikue Mōri as |
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Yasushi Nagata as |
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Kappei Matsumoto as |
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Yoshio Inaba as |
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Torahiko Hamada as |
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Tomo'o Nagai as |
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Masao Shimizu as |
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Yasumi Hara as |
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Kōji Mitsui as |
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Zenpei Saga as |
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Zeko Nakamura as |
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Shin Morikawa as |
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Hisao Toake as |
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Peter Williams as |
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Masanori Takeda as |
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Shojiro Ogasawara as |
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Someshō Matsumoto as |
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Ton Shimada as |
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Keizo Sasagawa as |
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Ippei Kawashima as |
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Teruo Matsuyama as |
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Shōji Ichimura as |
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Keiko Tama as |
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Reiko Niimura as |
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Ruriko Hitomi as |
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Hisako Hara as |
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Chiyoko Komine as |
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Kunie Tanaka as |
| Directing | Kaneto Shindō | Director |
| Camera | Eikichi Uematsu | Director of Photography |
| Production | Tengo Yamada | Producer |
| Art | Takashi Marumo | Art Direction |
| Production | Hisao Itoya | Producer |
| Production | Setsuo Noto | Producer |
| Camera | Takei Dai | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Hikaru Hayashi | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Kaneto Shindō | Screenplay |
| Writing | Yasutaro Yagi | Screenplay |
| Production | Kazuo Wakayama | Producer |
| Sound | Kunie Maruyama | Sound Recordist |
| Lighting | Shoichi Tabata | Lighting Technician |