Typhoon Over Nagasaki

Typhoon Over Nagasaki
Directed by	Yves Ciampi
Written by	Jean-Charles Tacchella Zenzô Matsuyama Annette Wademant Yves Ciampi
Produced by	Jacques Bar Raymond Froment Kuratarô Takamura
Starring	Danielle Darrieux Jean Marais Keiko Kishi Gert Fröbe
Cinematography	Henri Alekan
Edited by	Roger Dwyre
Music by	Chuji Kinoshita
Production companies	Cila Films Doxa Films CICC Pathé Shochiku
Distributed by	Pathé Consortium Cinéma
Release date	6 February 1957 (1957-02-06)
Running time	115 minutes
Countries	France Japan
Language	French
Box office	2,974,430 admissions (France)

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.

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

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

Bibliography

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

External links

• Typhoon Over Nagasaki at IMDb
• Typhon sur Nagasaki (1957) at the Films de France