Nihon Chinbotsu (1973 film)
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Budget 25 million USD Duration Country Japan | Director Shinji Higuchi Music director Taro Iwashiro Language Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Shinobu Hashimoto , Sakyo Komatsu Release date December 29, 1973 (1973-12-29) Cast Ko Shibasaki , Tsuyoshi Kusanagi , Etsushi Toyokawa , Mayuko Fukuda , Hideaki Anno Similar movies Ko Shibasaki movies, Disaster movies, Movies about Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nihon chinbotsu 1973 film tidal wave
Nihon Chinbotsu (, literally "Japan Sinks" or "Submersion of Japan"; English release: Tidal Wave) is a 1973 film directed by Shiro Moritani. It is based on the novel Japan Sinks by Sakyo Komatsu, published the same year. The film stars Lorne Greene, Keiju Kobayashi, Hiroshi Fujioka and Ayumi Ishida. A remake was released in 2006, Nihon Chinbotsu, loosely based on a second section of this series.
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The movie caused a sensation in Japan and paved the way for later "panic" features. Komatsu, the author of the novel, made a cameo in the beginning scenes of the movie.
Synopsis
Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes shake Japan. Firestorms burn beautiful Japanese cities to the ground. A weather survey group discovers that the Japanese Archipelago is moving towards the Japanese Trench, which if left to continue on its collision course, would bring the whole island of Japan under the sea.
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Tidal Wave
Roger Corman bought the U.S. rights to the film for his New World Pictures. He cut out a great deal of footage and added new sequences directed by Andrew Meyer starring Lorne Greene as an ambassador at the United Nations. The film was a big success at the U.S. box office.