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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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 & crew
Toshirō MifuneKitagawa
Yūjirō IshiharaIwaoka
Osamu TakizawaOtagaki
Takashi ShimuraAshimura
Shūji SanoHirata
Jūkichi UnoMori
Ryūtarō TatsumiGenzo
Isao TamagawaSayama
Takeshi KatōKunikida
Eijirō YanagiFujimura
Akira YamanouchiTsukamotoExplore the crew
- Director
- Kei Kumai
- Producer
- Akira Nakai
- Editor
- Mutsuo Tanji
- Original Music Composer
- Toshirō Mayuzumi
- Director of Photography
- Mitsuji Kanau
- Screenplay
- Kei Kumai
- Screenplay
- Masato Ide