Submersion of Japan (1973)
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Submersion of Japan (日本沈没 is a Nippon Chinbotsu, lit. Japan Sinks)1973 disaster film produced by Toho. The film was released to Japanese theaters on December 29, 1973 and to American theaters in May of 1975.
Plot
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Staff
Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.
- Directed by Shiro Moritani
- Written by Shinobu Hashimoto, Sakyo Komatsu
- Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka, Osamu Tanaka
- Music by Masaru Sato
- Cinematography by Daisaku Kimura, Hiroshi Murai
- Edited by Michiko Ikeda
- Production design by Yoshiro Muraki
- Assistant directing by Koji Hashimoto
- Special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano
Cast
Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.
- Keiju Kobayashi as Dr. Tadokoro
- Hiroshi Fujioka as Onodera Toshio
- Ayumi Ishida as Abe Reiko
- Rhonda Leigh Hopkins as Fran
- Lorne Greene as Ambassador Warren Richards
- Tetsuro Tamba as Prime Minister Yamamoto
- Shogo Shimada as Watari
- John Fujioka as Narita
- Andrew Hughes as Australian Prime Minister
- Nobuo Nakamura as Japanese Ambassador
- Haruo Nakajima as Prime Minister's Chauffeur
- Hideaki Nitani as Dr. Nakata
- Isao Natsuyagi as Yuki
- Yusuke Takita as Assistant Professor Yukinaga
Appearances
Weapons, Vehicles, and Races
- Wadatsumi-1
- UH-1 Iroquois
Alternate Titles
- Japan Sinks (Literal Japanese title)
- Submersion of Japan (International title)
- Tidal Wave (American title)
Box Office
With an incredible box office total of ¥5,340,000,000, Submersion of Japan was the highest-grossing Japanese film of both 1973 and 1974.[2]
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Trivia
- Based on Sakyo Komatsu's 1973 novel Japan Sinks, this was not the first attempt at a film adaptation of the source material. In 1972, Daiei president Masakazu Nagata announced a film adaptation of Komatsu's then-upcoming novel, at the time a raw manuscript, and titled it Submersion of the Japanese Archipelago. However, not only was there no prior notification to the staff at Daiei before the announcement, but the film rights had not been procured from Komatsu yet. The film never got off the ground past planning stages, and the film rights were eventually sold to Toho.[3]
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