Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959)

Original title

第五福竜丸

Directed by

Kaneto Shindō

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 55m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

More films like this

How it feels

The film follows the crew of a Japanese fishing boat. It shows what happens when their ship is contaminated by a nuclear bomb test.

somberbleakslow-burnhistoricalmelancholicreflectivequietgrounded

What happens

Lucky Dragon No. 5 (第五福竜丸, Daigo Fukuryū Maru) is a 1959 Japanese drama film directed by Kaneto Shindō. It is based on events involving the fishing boat Daigo Fukuryū Maru and the Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb test in 1954. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
• Unforgettable Trail (1959)
• Thus Another Day (1959)
• Floating Weeds (1959)
• Fires on the Plain (1959)
• The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)
• Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender (1959)
• We Live Today (1959)
• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.