Tokyo Blackout | |
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Directed by | Toshio Masuda |
Produced by | Yasuyoshi Tokuma Shichiro Murakami Katsumi Mizoguchi Miki Kayahara Seikichi Izumi Kosaku Wada |
Written by | Hiroyasu Yamaura Toshio Masuda Sakyo Komatsu |
Starring | Tsunehiko Watase Yūko Natori Shinji Yamashita |
Music by | Maurice Jarre |
Cinematography | Masahiko Iimura |
Editing by | Toshio Taniguchi |
Distributed by | Daiei Toho |
Released | January 17, 1987 |
Running time | 120 minutes |
Gross revenue | ¥7,600,000[1] |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Tokyo Blackout (首都消失?, lit. The Capital Disappears) is a 1987 Japanese Shuto Shōshitsutokusatsu eiga (special effects movie) based on a 1983 science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. it was co-produced by Kansai TV, Tokuma Shoten, and Daiei and distributed by Toho.
Plot[]
One day, Tokyo and metropolitan area are suddenly covered by a giant dome-shaped and electromagantic "cloud" for an unknown reason, and the whole thing seemed to disappear and all communications with the outside of "the cloud" are cut off.
Therefore, governments and scientific researchers in various places were extremely shocked and hurriedly organized to study countermeasures. But people are unable to cross "the cloud" into the Tokyo metropolitan area.
The Soviet Navy fleet is getting close near Hokkaido, and the U.S. is forcing Japan to form a new governmemt. So an emergency national governor's meeting was held, and made the national governor's meeting a transitional agency of state affairs.
Scientists outside "the cloud" try to rescue 20 million lives in "the cloud" by using artificial high-power electromagnetic jammers.
Cast[]
- Tsunehiko Watase as Tatsuya Asakura
- Yūko Natori as Mariko Koide
- Shinji Yamashita as Yosuke Tamiya
- Isao Natsuyagi as Eiji Sakuma
- Ichirō Zaitsu as Kawamura
- Yōko Ishino as Mieko Matsunaga
- Raita Ryū as Horie
- Ittoku Kishibe as Yasuhara
- Yoshie Taira as Yumiko Asakura
- Sei Hiraizumi as Wada
- Shōji Yasui as Ambassador to the United States Otsuki
- Kei Taguchi as Ambassador to the United Kingdom Uekusa
- Renji Ishibashi as Miyoshi
- Haruko Katō as Umeko Koide
- Norihei Miki as Matsukichi Kimura
- Fumio Watanabe as Osaka Prefecture Governor Komuro
- Hideji Ōtaki as Professor Otawara
- Tetsurō Tamba as Representative Nakata
Alternate titles[]
- '''The Capital Disappears''' (literal Japanese title)
- '''Disappearance of the Capital (alternate translation)
Production[]
The film was co-produced by Kansai TV, Tokuma Shoten, and Daiei and distributed by Toho.
Other releases[]
- United States, Canada - August 29, 1987