Film

A Man Explodes

1959 · 1h 36m · Drama · Action · Crime

Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One day Kensuke saves a suicidal woman, Fukiko Uzu, who jumps into a waterfall. Having injured his eyes in the process, he is brought to Tokyo for medical treatment. In Tokyo, Kensaku visits his mother Kaneko who left her son years ago. She now owns an exclusive club and has a son, Isao, with the president of Kobe Concern. Isao plots to steal Kensuke's farm as part of a land development scheme with Fukiko's husband. Without knowing they are blood related, their conflict over the farm intensifies.

Yūjirō Ishihara

Mie Kitahara

Ruriko Asaoka

Hideaki Nitani

Mari Shiraki

Yuji Odaka

Nobuo Kaneko

Michiyo Kogure

Eijirō Yanagi

Osamu Takizawa

Saburo Hiromatsu

Shōki Fukae

Shosei Muto

Reiko Arai

Tomio Aoki

• Toshio MasudaDirector
• Mio EzakiScreenplay
• Gan YamazakiScreenplay
• Renzaburō ShibataNovel
• Shinsaku HimedaDirector of Photography
• Masaru SatōOriginal Music Composer

Release date

April 28, 1959

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 36m

Genres

Drama, Action, Crime