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Director:
Writers:
Sakyo Komatsu (novel)
Masato Kato (screenplay)
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Release Date:
15 July 2006 (Japan) more
Plot:
Japan will sink down to the deep sea. The governments only hope is evacuate all Japanese to some other countries. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
Excellent (in case you've never seen a Disaster-Movie before) more (17 total)

Cast

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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
Kôji Ishizaka ... Prime Minister Yamamoto
Ken'ichi Endô ... Shin-ichirou Nakata
Takeshi Katô ... Prof.Yamashiro
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Hideaki Anno ... Yamashiro's Son in law
Moyoco Anno ... Yamashiro's Daughter
Harutoshi Fukui
Teruko Hanahara
Narushi Ikeda
Tarô Ishida ... Minister of Defence
Tae Kimura
Kazuo Kitamura ... Minister of Justice
Ai Maeda
Takashi Matsuo
Seminosuke Murasugi
Naomasa Musaka
Aiko Nagayama
Shirô Namiki ... SDF General
Hiroshi Ohguchi
Koji Okura
Eriko Satô
Pierre Taki
Tetsurô Tanba ... Reiko's grandpa
Toru Tezuka
Yoshiyuki Tomino ... Kyoto's Monk
Kanji Tsuda
Emi Wakui
Ken'ichi Yajima
Tatsuo Yamada
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan (USA) (DVD box title)
Japan Sinks (International: English title)
The Sinking of Japan (Singapore: English title)
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Runtime:
Japan:135 min
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Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Final acting role of Tetsuro Tamba. more
Movie Connections:
Remake of Nippon chinbotsu (1973) more

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6 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
Excellent (in case you've never seen a Disaster-Movie before), 18 March 2007
5/10
Author: the_diceman from Germany

Epic disaster movie, but totally different from Hollywood-Stuff (may be a budget thing, too). It's more about personal drama and the Big Picture than all-out Smashing Mayhem and people running around, screaming and dying. The actual Sinking of Japan takes place in a few short destruction-sequences throughout the movie and they are superbly executed (for Japanese standards), in between it's all about Love, Hope, and Sorrow in lofty dialog. Kou Shibasaki and her good looks remain the best thing about this movie. One perfect Farewell-Scene is being spoiled by stupid R'nB-Music, the ending had me crying with affection, though, I suck.

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