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(Synopsis)
Based on Sakyo Komatsu's novel. In the aftermath of a major earthquake under Suraga Bay, Misaki (a young girl) and Toshiro (a pilot of a deep sea submarine) are rescued from a ruined city street just as leaking gasoline ignites. Reiko Abe arrives just in time, lowered from a helicopter. Scientists predict that Japan will sink within 40 years, due to subduction of a tectonic plate to the west. However, Dr. Tadokoro, who leads an oceanic scientific team that includes Toshiro, calculates that this will happen far sooner, in only 338.54 days.
* SPOILERS * He presents his findings to Prime Minister Yamamoto who decides to create a new department for impending disaster relief assigning Saoro Takamori to cover the new duties, since of all his ministers she will take it seriously but also bring "heart" to the process. As further earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions devastate Japan, the government pleads with other countries to take refugees. Yamamoto flies to China to negotiate relocations there, but his plane is destroyed by a volcanic eruption. Saoro fills the resulting vacuum in leadership and decides that Dr. Tadokoro's plan to blow holes in the disintegrating tectonic tectonic plate is the best remaining hope to not only save the people, but what remains of the country itself. Ironically it was her career that hastened their divorce 20 years earlier. Misaki becomes orphaned following her mother's death from earthquake injuries, and bonds with Reiko who was similarly rescued from, but orphaned by the Kobe quake. Toshiro is offered a job in England and wants Reiko and Misaki to come with him, but Reiko feels bound to help others and refuses to leave. Fellow submarine pilot Shinji Yuki also turns down Toshiro's offer to work with him in England. Drillships place massive explosives deep in the crust, but the detonator is not placed properly and Yuki dies attempting to place it by submarine.
Director
Shinji Higuchi
Script
Masato Kato
Producer
Kazuya Hamana
Toshiaki Nakazawa
Cast
Ai Maeda
Aiko Nagayama
Akira Emoto
Emi Wakui
Eriko Sato
Etsushi Toyokawa
Harutoshi Fukui
Hideaki Anno
Hideko Yoshida
Hiroshi Ohguchi
Jun Kunimura
Kanji Tsuda
Kazuo Kitamura
Kenichi Endo
Kenichi Yajima
Koji Ishizaka
Koji Okura
Kou Shibasaki
Mao Daichi
Mayuko Fukuda
Mitsuhiro Oikawa
Moyoco Anno
Naomasa Rokudaira
Narushi Ikeda
Pierre Taki
Seminosuke Murasugi
Shiro Namiki
Tae Kimura
Takashi Matsuo
Takeshi Kato
Taro Ishida
Tatsuo Yamada
Teruko Hanahara
Tetsuro Tamba
Toru Tezuka
Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
Yoshiyuki Tomino
Publisher : CJE
Audio : Japanese (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Video : WideScreen
Subtitles : English/Japanese/Korean
Running Time : 135mins
Release Year : 2006
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