Global South guerrillas hijack the Japanese oil tanker Arabian Light, threatening to blow it up in Tokyo Bay, unless the Cabinet complies with an economically devastating ultimatum.
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI destruction that earns every explosion.
Acting
Tetsuro Tamba's exhausted authority carries the whole film.
Director
Katsumune Ishida
Tetsuro Tamba
Captain Munekata
Hiroshi Fujioka
Jiro Tate
Joe Shishido
Chief Engineer Kosai
Yutaka Mizutani
Munk
Midori Kanazawa
Michiko
Ryōhei Uchida
Boatswain Nishizawa
Fumio Watanabe
Tatsuya Iwado
Kei Satō
Director Fukami
Mizuho Suzuki
Head Countermeasures Director Katsuragi
Soichiro Kitamura
First Mate Ebara
Kenji Sahara
Shimpo Press reporter Kumamoto
Tetsuya Watari
Third Officer Inoue
Kazuya Aoyama
Telegraphist Kusaka
Ken Sanders
Kifal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Japan's oil crisis anxieties; the tanker threat literalized national economic vulnerability.
Director Ishida came from tokusatsu television—the miniature work here is noticeably more polished than typical 1975 Japanese cinema.
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