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
Manakichi Kuboyama
Nobuko Otowa
Shizu Kuboyama
Eitarō Ozawa
Governor
Koreya Senda
Dr. Kinoshita
Taiji Tonoyama
Masao Mishima
Taketoshi Naitō
Ippei Souda
Harold Conway
Kikue Mōri
Lucky Dragon No. 5 is a drama film released in 1959 exploring themes of atomic bomb, hydrogen bomb, atomic bomb test, based on true story, fishing boat, radiation sickness. Directed by Kaneto Shindō, it stars Jūkichi Uno, Nobuko Otowa, Eitarō Ozawa. 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.
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