The Storm

With one of the busiest film industries in the world, Japan was able to submit several films into competition at the 1957 Berlin Film Festival. One of the best of these was Arashi, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki of Rickshaw Man fame. Anticipating Hollywood's Table for Five by nearly a quarter of a century, the film concerns the efforts by a recently widowed high-school teacher to raise his four children alone. Chihu Ryu is terrific as the central character, while Izumi Yukimura is even better as Ryu's eldest daughter. For reasons unknown, Arashi is often omitted from "official" lists of Inagaki's films.

Chishū Ryū

Kinuyo Tanaka

Daisuke Katō

Akira Kubo

Ren Yamamoto

Kunio Ôtsuka

Izumi Yukimura

Gen Shimizu

Chieko Nakakita

Haruko Tōgō

Minosuke Yamada

Ureo Egawa

Ren Imaizumi

Fumito Matsuo

Yuko Kagawa

Akira Tani

Tsuruko Mano

Yoshio Inaba