Typhoon Over Nagasaki (1957)
"Typhon sur Nagasaki" (original title)

Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named Noriko. But Françoise Fabre, a French ... See full summary »

Director:

Yves Ciampi

Writers:

Yves Ciampi, Zenzo Matsuyama,

Stars:

Danielle Darrieux, Jean Marais, Keiko Kishi

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Danielle Darrieux	...	Françoise Fabre
Jean Marais	...	Pierre Marsac
Keiko Kishi	...	Noriko Sakurai
Gert Fröbe	...	Ritter
Sô Yamamura	...	Hori
Hitomi Nozoe	...	Saeko Sakurai
Kumeko Urabe	...	Fujita

Storyline

Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named Noriko. But Françoise Fabre, a French journalist and Pierre's former lover, contacts him while visiting the Land of the Rising Sun. They meet again, find out their love might not be dead. Meanwhile, Pierre gradually becomes estranged from sweet, humble Noriko. One day, a typhoon strikes Nagasaki...

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

France Japan

Language:

French

Release Date:

13 September 1957 (Finland)

Also Known As:

Typhoon Over Nagasaki

Filming Locations:

A-Bomb Museum, Nagasaki, Japan

Company Credits

Production Co:

Cila Films, Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique (CICC), Doxa Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

115 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The starting point of the screenplay was Thomas Raucat's novel "L'honorable partie de campagne" about a Frenchman discovering Japan in 1925. But it was modified to such an extent that it is not even mentioned in the credits.

User Reviews

Nagasaki mes amours.

Shot in color,with a comfortable budget for the time "Typhon sur Nagasaki" ,in spite of two great French actors is not only a disaster movie:it's also a disaster itself.After a first part,which drags on and on and on ,where Marais is torn between a French journalist and a Japanese in a folklore for tourists (complete with puppets,raw fish ,etc),the typhoon ,which anyone is expecting to enliven things a bit,was perhaps impressive at the time,but we've seen much better since and it's all terribly quaint for today's audience.Like America at the same time (Sayonara,Tea house of the August moon),France tried its hand at the Japanese stuff and its effort was appalling.