A young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance. Produced entirely on location overseas, which was groundbreaking at the time.
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Cast
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Yūjirō Ishihara
Kentarô Munakata
Known for
Crazed Fruit
Izumi Ashikawa
Yuriko Shiratori
Also in
The Man with a Shotgun
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Takiko Mizunoe
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The Invisible Man Appears
Sandakan No. 8
Kō Nakahira
Yuji Odaka
Koji Nakagawa
Also in
Smashing the 0-Line
The Man with a Shotgun
Akira Nakai
Ryōji Hayama
Kimura
Also in
Forever a Woman
Bloody Territories
Shôgorô Nishimura
Nobuo Yamada
Helmy Rafla
Shadia
Laila
Also in
My Wife the General Manager
A Woman's Youth
Ken Mitsuda
Kuromizu
Known for
Sansho the Bailiff
The Ballad of Narayama
Kō Nakahira Director · Nobuo Yamada Screenplay Toshirō Mayuzumi Composer
First release December 24, 1961 · Produced in Japan · Languages Arabic, Japanese
Production
Nikkatsu Corporation
Production
Japan
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Languages
Original title
アラブの嵐
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Arabic · Japanese
Release dates
Japan · December 24, 1961
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No release date listed for United States.
Belgium
July 5, 2008
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