The Sands of Kurobe

(1968)

★ 7 IMDb · 7 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1968

Runtime: 196 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 熊井啓

Cast: Тосиро Мифунэ, 石原裕次郎, 滝沢修, Такаси Симура, 佐野周二, 宇野重吉, 辰巳柳太郎, 玉川伊佐男, 加藤武, Sumio Takatsu

Plot

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.