Release Date

August, 27th, 2005

Running Time

115 min

Genre

Feature , Series

Color

Color

Screening Format

35mm

Screen Size

-

Sound Processing

-

[ Directed by ]

• ASAHARA Yuzo

[ Produced by ]

• SEJIMA Mitsuo
• FUKASAWA Hiroshi

[ Cast ]

• NISHIDA Toshiyuki ── Hama-chan
• MIKUNI Rentaro ── Su-san
• ITO Misaki ── Misuzu

[ Staff ]

• YAMADA Yoji ── Screenplay
• ISHIKAWA Katsumi ── Screenplay
• HIRAMATSU Emiko ── Screenplay
• YAMASAKI Juzou ── Original Story
• CHIKAMORI Masashi ── Cinematography
• NOBUTA Kazuo ── Music

[ Production Company ]

SHOCHIKU

[ Story ]

The sixteenth film in the legendary comic film series about two elderly fishermen who catch more trouble than fish.
Fishing fools, Su-san (Mikuni Rentaro), the President of the Suzuki Construction Company, and his employee, Hama-chan (Nishida Toshiyuki) are supposed to attend the opening of a bridge Suzuki's company built in the town of Sasebo and then go fishing afterwards. However, when Hama-chan sees the sea, he forgets completely about the opening ceremony for the new bridge. He makes arrangements to rent a boat with Tatsuya (Kaneko Noboru), one of the local salesmen and Tatsuya's girlfriend (Ito Misaki). Two days later, however, Su-san learns that Hama-chan is missing and the whole thing blows up into an international incident. It turns out that Hama-chan got drunk with an American soldier and followed him back to his boat. When Hama-chan wakes up, he finds himself in the middle of the ocean on an American battleship, heading for Hawaii.

[ Contact (International) ]

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