Typhoon Over Nagasaki

{{short description|1957 film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Typhoon Over Nagasaki

| image = File:Typhoon Over Nagasaki.jpg

| caption =

| director = Yves Ciampi

| producer = Jacques Bar
Raymond Froment
Kuratarô Takamura

| writer = Jean-Charles Tacchella
Zenzô Matsuyama
Annette Wademant
Yves Ciampi

| 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

| released = {{Film date|1957|02|06|df=yes}}

| runtime = 115 minutes

| country = France
Japan
West Germany |gross=2,974,430 admissions (France){{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficestory.com/box-office-jean-marais-c22695355|title=Box Office Figures for Jean Marais films|website=Box Office Story}}

| language = French

| budget =

}}

Typhoon Over Nagasaki (French: Typhon sur Nagasaki) is a 1957 French-Japanese-West German romantic drama directed by Yves Ciampi and starring Danielle Darrieux, Jean Marais, Keiko Kishi and Gert Fröbe.[http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_Typhon_sur_Nagasaki_rev.html Typhon sur Nagasaki (1957)] at the Films de FranceParish p.361

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.

Cast

References

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Bibliography

  • Parish, James Robert. Film Actors Guide: Western Europe. Scarecrow Press, 1977.