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
Ippei Souda
Taketoshi Naitō
Masao Shimizu
Yasumi Hara
Zenpei Saga
Zeko Nakamura
Hisako Hara
Masao Mishima
Torahiko Hamada
Tomo'o Nagai
Hisao Toake
Eitarō Ozawa
as Governor
Taiji Tonoyama
Shin Morikawa
Yoshio Inaba
Kōji Mitsui
Peter Williams
Koreya Senda
as Dr. Kinoshita
Nobuko Otowa
as Shizu Kuboyama
Harold Conway
