Typhoon Over Nagasaki Explained

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.

Plot

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Box Office Figures for Jean Marais films. Box Office Story.
  2. http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_Typhon_sur_Nagasaki_rev.html Typhon sur Nagasaki (1957)
  3. Parish p.361