
Lucky Dragon No. 5
7.5(4) 1959-02-18 107 minDrama
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.
DirectorKaneto Shindō
ProducerTengo Yamada
ProducerHisao Itoya
ProducerSetsuo Noto
Original Music ComposerHikaru Hayashi
ScreenplayKaneto Shindō
ScreenplayYasutaro Yagi
ProducerKazuo Wakayama
Cast & characters

Jūkichi Uno
as Manakichi Kuboyama

Nobuko Otowa
as Shizu Kuboyama

Eitarō Ozawa
as Governor

Koreya Senda
as Dr. Kinoshita

Taiji Tonoyama
as —

Masao Mishima
as —

Taketoshi Naitō
as —

Ippei Souda
as —
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Harold Conway
as —
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Kikue Mōri
as —
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Yasushi Nagata
as —
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Kappei Matsumoto
as —

Yoshio Inaba
as —

Torahiko Hamada
as —

Tomo'o Nagai
as —

Masao Shimizu
as —

Yasumi Hara
as —

Kōji Mitsui
as —

Zenpei Saga
as —

Zeko Nakamura
as —

Shin Morikawa
as —

Hisao Toake
as —

Peter Williams
as —
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Masanori Takeda
as —











