Lucky Dragon No. 5
第五福竜丸
Release: 1959-02-18
·Runtime: 107m
·★ 7.3
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
Kindai Eiga Kyokai
Shinseiki Productions
Cast
Jūkichi Uno
as Manakichi Kuboyama
Eitarō Ozawa
as Governor
Koreya Senda
as Dr. Kinoshita
Harold Conway
Yoshio Inaba
Masao Shimizu
Kōji Mitsui
Nobuko Otowa
as Shizu Kuboyama
Taketoshi Naitō
Ippei Souda
Tomo'o Nagai
Hisako Hara
Peter Williams
Masao Mishima
Torahiko Hamada
Shin Morikawa
Zenpei Saga
Zeko Nakamura
Taiji Tonoyama
Yasumi Hara
Hisao Toake
