Submersion of Japan (1974)
Original title: 日本沈没
Submersion of Japan is a 1974 Japanese-language drama series created by Sakyo Komatsu. It stars Keiju Kobayashi, Takenori Murano and Kaoru Yumi.
In this TV series of the hit 1973 film, 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!
Cast
- Keiju Kobayashi as Dr. Yusuke Tadokoro
- Takenori Murano as Toshio Onodera
- Kaoru Yumi as Reiko Abe
- Mari-Christine Jeanney as Maria Bailey
- Tomoko Ogawa as Maya Ariyoshi
- Tomoyuki Hosokawa as Assistant Professor Nobuhiko Yukinaga
- Toshio Kurosawa as Secretary Nakata
- Noboru Nakaya as Hideo Yoshimura
- Kunie Tanaka as Tatsuno
- Kenji Sahara as Nozue
- Isao Hashimoto
- Takamaru Sasaki