Film
Light The Explosives
Japan- Director
- Koreyoshi Kurahara
- Year
- 1959
Three young men face off against corrupt officials and Yakuza in order to complete a reclamation project of the coastal embankment, who try to derail the project every step of the way until a tsunami hits, putting everyone in danger.
Top cast
Akira Kobayashi
Chūji Nakanishi (President of the Nakanishi-gumi construction company)
Mari Shiraki
Chikako Shiga (Photographer)
Masumi Okada
Jirō Sugi (Civil engineer for Nakanishi-gumi)
Kō Nishimura
Sakamaki (Trade journal reporter)
Kenjiro Uemura
Gorō Hasegawa (Fūtarō)
Hiroshi Kondō
Tomioka (Technical official, Kanagawa Prefectural Port Division)
Shinsuke Ashida
Takamitsu Sesato (President of Teikoku Kin'yū)
Shōji Yasui
Susumu Suda (Fūtarō, a former doctor)
Yasukiyo Umeno
Tatsuhiko Ōe (Nakanishi-gumi accountant; nicknamed "Shibuchin")
Shin Date
Sōichirō Shiga (Branch manager at Kanagawa Bank; Chikako's father)
Hiroshi Hijikata
Kyūsaku Gonda (Fūtarō)
Sanpei Mine
Kanji (Kitchen Staff, Nakanishi-gumi)
Directed by
Koreyoshi Kurahara
Written by
Ichirō Ikeda, Keiichi Abe