Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan | |
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Directed by | Shinji Higuchi |
Produced by | Toshiaki Nakazawa |
Written by | Novel: Sakyō Komatsu Screenplay: Masato Kato |
Music by | Taro Iwashiro |
Cinematography | Taro Kawazu |
Editing by | Hiroshi Okuda |
Distributed by | Toho |
Released | May 18, 2006 (Cannes) |
Running time | 135 min. |
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Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan (日本沈没 Nippon Chinbotsu), aka The Sinking of Japan is a 2006 Japanese film based a novel by Sakyo Komatsu and directed by Shinji Higuchi. It is a remake of the 1973 film of the same name.
Plot[]
After a major earthquake hits Numazu, Japan, killing thousands and leveling the city of Numazu, scientists come to the conclusion that Japan will sink within 40 years due to the Pacific Plate subducting too much under the Eurasian Plate, and eventually evacuation will have to be considered. However, Dr. Takodoro soon discovers new evidence that Japan will sink much sooner than that due to crustal delamination (the process in which the Earth's crust peels off), and the population has less than 1 year to evacuate to safety. As super earthquakes and tidal waves (caused by a rupture of both the Sagami Megathrust and the Japan Median Tectonic Line) wipe out Tokyo and kill millions of the city's non-evacuees and destroy other cities, Mt. Aso and other volcanic eruptions devastate Kumamoto and other areas as well, killing millions, and tsunamis wash away Hokadate City, Osaka, and other areas, Takodoro has to find a way to stop the collapsing mass (which had formed from the Pacific-Eurasian plate collision) from destroying Japan.
Cast[]
- Tsuyoshi Kusanagi ... Toshio Onodera
- Kou Shibasaki ... Reiko Abe
- Etsushi Toyokawa ... Yusuke Tadokoro
- Mao Daichi ... Saori Takamori
- Mitsuhiro Oikawa ... Shinji Yuki
- Mayuko Fukuda ... Misaki Kuraki
- Hideko Yoshida ... Tamae Tanokura
- Akira Emoto ... Prof. Fukuhara
- Jun Kunimura ... Kyosuke Nozaki
- Koji Ishizaka ... Prime Minister Yamamoto
- Kenichi Endo ... Shin-ichirou Nakata
- Takeshi Katō ... Prof.Yamashiro
- Hideaki Anno ... Yamashiro's Son in law
- Moyoco Anno ... Yamashiro's Daughter
- Harutoshi Fukui
- Teruko Hanahara
- Narushi Ikeda
- Taro Ishida ... Minister of Defense
- Tae Kimura
- Kazuo Kitamura ... Minister of Justice
- Ai Maeda
- Takashi Matsuo
- Seminosuke Murasugi
- Aiko Nagayama
- Shiro Namiki ... SDF General
- Hiroshi Ohguchi
- Koji Okura
- Naomasa Rokudaira
- Eriko Sato
- Pierre Taki
- Tetsuro Tamba ... Reiko's grandpa
- Toru Tezuka
- Yoshiyuki Tomino ... Kyoto's Monk
- Kanji Tsuda
- Emi Wakui
- Kenichi Yajima
- Tatsuo Yamada
- Mayumi Shintani
External links[]
- Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan at Jason Gray's blog
- Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan at Wikipedia