Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan
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| Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan | |
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 Japanese poster | |
| Directed by | Shinji Higuchi |
| Produced by | Toshiaki Nakazawa |
| Written by | Novel: Sakyo 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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| IMDb profile | |
| Trailer | |
This article is about the 2006 film. For the 1973 film, see The Sinking of Japan.
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.
[edit] Plot
After a major earthquake hits Japan, scientists come to the conclusion that Japan will sink within 40 years and eventually evacuation will have to be considered. However, Dr. Takodoro soon discovers new evidence that Japan will sink much sooner than that, and the population has less than 1 year to evacuate to safety.
[edit] 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 Kato ... 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
[edit] External links
- Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan at Jason Gray's blog
- Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan at Wikipedia
