Typhoon on Nagasaki

Synopsis

The central character is Peter Marsac, an engineer French working in the shipyard of Nagasaki . Marsac integrates well in Japanese society and is interested in a Japanese woman, Noriko. However, an old friend, journalist Françoise Fabre, contacted him and announced his visit. Follows a love triangle until the day of the typhoon …

Technical sheet

• Title: Typhoon on Nagasaki
• Director: Yves Ciampi
• Assistant Director: Jean-Jacques Vierne
• Scenario: Yves Ciampi , Zenzō Matsuyama and Jean-Charles Tacchella
• Dialogues: Annette Wademant
• Pictures: Henri Alekan
• Editing: Roger Dwyre
• Sets: Robert Gys and Kisaku Ito
• Music: Chûji Kinoshita
• Costumes: Jacques Heim
• Producer: Jacques Bar , Raymond Froment (executive producer) and Kurataro Takamura
• Production: Cila Films, Industrial and Commercial Cinematographic Company (CICC), Doxa Films, Pathé Overseas, Shôchiku Eiga, Société Nouvelle Pathé Cinéma and Terra Film Produktion
• Distribution: Pathé Cinema Consortium
• Country: France / Japan
• Genre: Drama
• Format: Color ( Technicolor ) – Sound: Mono
• Duration: 115 minutes
• Release date : February 6 , 1957( Paris )

Distribution

In the order of credits:

• Danielle Darrieux : Françoise Fabre
• Jean Marais : Pierre Marsac
• Keiko Kishi : Noriko Sakurai
• Sō Yamamura : Hori
• Hitomi Nozoe : Saeko Sakurai
• Kumeko Urabe : Fujita
• Gert Fröbe : Ritter
• Shinobu Asaji : Keiko Ritter

Writing

The script is credited to: Yves Ciampi , Zenzō Matsuyama , Jean Charles Tacchella and Annette Wademant .

The script was originally taken from the novel of Roger Poidatz , Hon house party , which tells the story of a French who discovered Japan in 1925 . However, the story has been so modified that the novel is not mentioned in the credits of the film.

Other countries

• In the United States : Typhoon Over Nagasaki ² .
• In Japan : Wasure enu bojo .

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