Typhoon Over Nagasaki | |
Director: | Yves Ciampi |
Producer: | Jacques Bar Raymond Froment Kuratarô Takamura |
Starring: | Danielle Darrieux Jean Marais Keiko Kishi Gert Fröbe |
Music: | Chuji Kinoshita |
Cinematography: | Henri Alekan |
Editing: | Roger Dwyre |
Studio: | Cila Films Doxa Films CICC Pathé Shochiku |
Distributor: | Pathé Consortium Cinéma |
Runtime: | 115 minutes |
Country: | France Japan |
Gross: | 2,974,430 admissions (France)[1] |
Language: | French |
Typhoon Over Nagasaki (French: Typhon sur Nagasaki) is a 1957 French-Japanese romantic drama film directed by Yves Ciampi and starring Danielle Darrieux, Jean Marais, Keiko Kishi and Gert Fröbe.[2] [3]
It was shot in Japan in Nagasaki, Hiroshima and Osaka. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Gys and Kisaku Itô.
Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working at the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards is in love with a young local woman Noriko Sakurai. However, when he encounters a former lover, the journalist Françoise Fabre he drifts apart from Noriko. Tragedy strikes when a typhoon overwhelms the region.