is a 1970 Japanese film directed by

Tetsutaro Murano was a Japanese film director. In 1953, he joined the Daiei studio and started working as an assistant director. He made his director debut with ''Aoi Tsubasa'' in 1960. Murano was born in Kagoshima on August 18, 1929, and died on July 8, 2020, a ...

. Based on Jiro Asada`s novel of the same title. The film depicts how People built Mount Fuji Radar System on the top of

Mount Fuji is an active stratovolcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu, with a summit elevation of . It is the highest mountain in Japan, the second-highest volcano on any Asian island (after Mount Kerinci on the Indonesian island of Sumatra), a ...

Cast

* Yūjirō Ishihara as Gorō Umehara *

Tetsuya Watari born (December 28, 1941 – August 10, 2020) was a Japanese film, stage, and television actor. Life He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University. Watari belonged to the karate club at university. He made his screen debut in 1964, in Isamu Kosu ...

as Youhei Kada * Tsutomu Yamazaki as Takeshi Ishizuka *

Ichirō Nakatani was a Japanese actor. He attended Waseda University, but withdrew before completing his degree and joined the Haiyuza Theatre Company. In 1959, Nakatani won Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year. Nakatani was well known for his role as Ninja ...

as Okada * Shinsuke Ashida as Tatsukichi * Makoto Sato as Morita * Eijirō Tōno * Kunie Tanaka * Takeshi Katō * Shigeru Kōyama * Ben Hiura as A youngman * Akira Yamauchi as Nakabayashi *

Mizuho Suzuki was a Japanese actor. He was a drop-out of Kyoto University. He died on November 19, 2023, at the age of 96. Filmography Film *'' Yogiri yo Kon'yamo Arigatō'' (1967) *'' Zatoichi the Outlaw'' (1967) *''The Snow Woman'' (1968) *'' The Sands o ...

as Uchimura * Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Tomizawa * Etsuko Ichihara as Shigeko * Mitsuo Hamada *

Masao Shimizu was a Japanese actor. His wife was actress Yumi Takano. His first starring role in the film was in ''Momoiro no Yuwaku'' in 1931. In 1947, he formed the Mingei Theatre Company. Shimizu often worked with Akira Kurosawa. He appeared in more than ...

as Isayama * Yuriko Hoshi as Mitsuko * Jukichi Uno as Muraoki * Shintaro Katsu as Asakichi

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* Nikkatsu films 1970s Japanese films Films scored by Toshiro Mayuzumi Films based on Japanese novels Films based on works by Jirō Asada {{1970s-Japan-film-stub