The World Sinks Except Japan (2006)
"Nihon igai zenbu chinbotsu" (original title)

Director:

Minoru Kawasaki

Writers:

Yasutaka Tsutsui (novel), Masakazu Migita (screenplay),

Stars:

Kenji Kohashi, Shûji Kashiwabara, Masatoshi Matsuo

Cast

Credited cast:
Kenji Kohashi
Shûji Kashiwabara
Masatoshi Matsuo
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Cynthia Cheston	...	Mother
Blake Crawford	...	Jerry Cruising
Avery Fane	...	Bar gangster (as Avery Fane)
Hiroshi Fujioka
Delcea Mihaela Gabriela
Jon Heese	...	President Pepiton
Arthur Kuroda
Takashi Matsuo
Kenji Motomiya	...	Gat
Takenori Murano
Ryôji Okamoto
Gregory Pekar	...	Club Singer

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

assassination plot | xenophobia | geologist | oppression | japanese culture | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Sci-Fi

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [jp]

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

2 September 2006 (Japan)

Also Known As:

The World Sinks Except Japan

Filming Locations:

Tokyo, Japan

Company Credits

Production Co:

Japan Digital Contents Trust (JDCT), Kadokawa Herald Pictures, Klock Worx Company, The

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

User Reviews

if you're not Japanese, and have lived in Japan, watch this movie

This is the kind of movie I would have liked to have written myself about Japan and the foreigner experience. This is a well-written, original, totally tongue-in-cheek farce. Foreigners living in Japan spend all of their time talking about the strangeness of the experience, but it had yet to be made into good literature. It's hard to be funny (as a comedy or satire) for the full duration of a movie, and also all movies, in general, tend to founder and become clichéd in the second half, after their structural pretexts have been presented. But this one continues to deliver and be trenchantly funny and topical and original all the way through. That is rare for a comic piece. Highly recommended if you can get your hands on it, especially for anyone who has lived as a foreigner in Japan, or any Japanese who have had close relations with foreigners in Japan. People who don't know Japan will not understand the farce, and will not like this movie. People who know Japan will be rolling in the aisles.