The Sinking of Japan

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The Sinking of Japan
HK DVD cover
Directed by	Shiro Moritani
Produced by	Osamu Tanaka Tomoyuki Tanaka
Written by	Novel: Sakyo Komatsu Screenplay: Shinobu Hashimoto
Music by	Masaru Sato
Cinematography	Daisaku Kimura Hiroshi Murai
Editing by	Michiko Ikeda
Distributed by	Toho
Released	December 29, 1973
Running time	140 min.
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The Sinking of Japan (日本沈没, Nippon Chinbotsu), aka The Sinking of Japan, aka Submersion of Japan is a 1973 Japanese film based on a Sakyo Komatsu novel and directed by Shiro Moritani. A remake of this film was released in 2006.

[edit] US Version

In May of 1975 this film was re-cut with all new dialogue as Tidal Wave and released in the US to capitalize on the popularity of disaster movies at the time. This version is only 82 minutes and has little to do with the original other than the big-budget disaster scenes throughout.

[edit] Cast

• Keiju Kobayashi ... Dr. Tadokoro (D-1 Project Leader)
• Hiroshi Fujioka ... Toshio Onodera (Submarine Wadatsumi Pilot)
• Tetsuro Tamba ... Prime Minister Yamamoto
• Ayumi Ishida ... Reiko Abe
• Shogo Shimada ... Watari (Political Fixer)
• Nobuo Nakamura ... Japanese Ambassador to Australia
• Andrew Hughes ... Australian Prime Minister
• Haruo Nakajima ... Prime Minister's Chauffeur
• Takeshi Yamamoto
• Hideaki Nitani ... Dr.Nakata (Cognitive Science D-2 Project Leader)
• Isao Natsuyagi ... Yuuki
• Yusuke Takita ... Assistant Professor Yukinaga (Geophysics)
• Tetsu Nakamura ... Philippines Ambassador to United Nations
• Eisaburo Komatsu
• Kunio Murai ... Kataoka (sdf technical research labo)
• Tadao Nakamaru ... Kuni-eda (Intelligence Bureau)
• Tsunehiro Arai
• Yuzo Hayakawa ... SDF General
• Toshio Hosokawa ... Chief Secretary
• Kazuo Kato ... Mimura
• Shigeru Kôyama ... Yoshimura
• Kanta Mori ... Defence Minister
• Akira Nagoya ... D-2 Security
• Mizuho Suzuki ... Science Minister
• Masaya Takahashi ... Professor Yamashiro

[edit] External links

• The Sinking of Japan at Wikipedia