Lucky Dragon No. 5
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship's navigator sees a flash. All the crew come up to watch. They realize it is an atomic explosion, but take time to clear their fishing gear. A short time later, grey ash starts to fall on the ship. When the ship returns to port the sailors have been burned brown. They unload the fish, which are then transported away. They visit the local doctor and then go to Tokyo for an examination. It turns out they are all highly radioactive. Their symptoms become worse, and the contaminated fish causes a panic.

Jūkichi Uno
Manakichi Kuboyama

Nobuko Otowa
Shizu Kuboyama

Eitarō Ozawa
Governor

Koreya Senda
Dr. Kinoshita

Taiji Tonoyama

Masao Mishima

Taketoshi Naitō

Ippei Souda

Harold Conway
Kikue Mōri
Yasushi Nagata
Kappei Matsumoto

Yoshio Inaba

Torahiko Hamada

Tomo'o Nagai

Masao Shimizu

Yasumi Hara

Kōji Mitsui

Zenpei Saga

Zeko Nakamura

Shin Morikawa

Hisao Toake

Peter Williams
Masanori Takeda
Shojiro Ogasawara
Someshō Matsumoto
Ton Shimada
Keizo Sasagawa
Ippei Kawashima
Teruo Matsuyama
Shōji Ichimura
Keiko Tama
Reiko Niimura
Ruriko Hitomi

Hisako Hara
Chiyoko Komine