Genre: Drama
Runtime: 107 min
Average vote: 7.3
Release date: 1959-02-18
Director: Kaneto Shindō
Music: Hikaru Hayashi
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.
Jūkichi Uno
as
Manakichi Kubo...
Nobuko Otowa
as
Shizu Kuboyama
Eitarō Ozawa
as
Governor
Koreya Senda
as
Dr. Kinoshita
Taiji Tonoyama
Masao Mishima
Taketoshi Naitō
Ippei Souda
Harold Conway
Kikue Mōri
Yasushi Nagata
Kappei Matsumo...
Yoshio Inaba
Torahiko Hamada
Tomo'o Nagai
Masao Shimizu
Yasumi Hara
Kōji Mitsui
Zenpei Saga
Zeko Nakamura
Shin Morikawa
Hisao Toake
Peter Williams
Masanori Takeda
Shojiro Ogasaw...
Someshō Matsum...
Ton Shimada
Keizo Sasagawa
Ippei Kawashima
Teruo Matsuyama
Shōji Ichimura
Keiko Tama
Reiko Niimura
Ruriko Hitomi
Hisako Hara
Chiyoko Komine