The Sands of Kurobe (1968)

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 (73)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Toshirō Mifune

Kitagawa

Yūjirō Ishihara

Iwaoka

Osamu Takizawa

Otagaki

Takashi Shimura

Ashimura

Shūji Sano

Hirata

Jūkichi Uno

Mori

Ryūtarō Tatsumi

Genzo

Isao Tamagawa

Sayama

Takeshi Katō

Kunikida

S

Sumio Takatsu

Ono

Eijirō Yanagi

Fujimura

Akira Yamanouchi

Tsukamoto

Akira Terao

Kenichi

E

Eimei Nitani

Odagiri

M

Masahiko Naruse

Kumada

Y

Yuichi Saito

Takagi

Shinsuke Ashida

Eiji Okada

Kinzō Shin

J

Jōji Ehara

E

Eiken Shoji

Mizuho Suzuki

S

Sadao Mizutani

T

Takashi Koshiba

K

Katsu Yamamoto

K

Keisuke Yukioka

T

Toshinosuke Nagao

Tappei Shimokawa

Mugihito

Kōjirō Kusanagi

Masami Shimojō

Takashi Inagaki

Asao Sano

Michio Hino

Jushiro Hirata

S

Seiichi Taguchi

Y

Yūzō Harumi

T

Tessen Nakahira

H

Hiroshi Chiyoda

Y

Yoshihiko Tabata

S

Seishirō Iwate

E

Eisuke Izumi

S

Shirō Ōhama

Shosei Muto

Hyōe Enoki

Y

Yoshisuke Makino

Hideji Ōtaki

Y

Yoshiyuki Nemoto

S

Sonosuke Niki

K

Kenji Shimamura

W

Wataru Kobayashi

Hideaki Nitani

H

Hiroshi Chō

T

Takashi Nomura

J

Jun Miyazaki

K

Katsumasa Yamayoshi

Y

Yoshinobu Ogawa

D

Daisuke Ōmi

M

Masayoshi Miyasaka

T

Tsuchiyasu Kinohara

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