Submersion of Japan

Synopsis

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

Dr. Yusuke Tadokoro

Takenori Murano

Toshio Onodera

Kaoru Yumi

Reiko Abe

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Mari-Christine Jeanney

Maria Bailey

Tomoko Ogawa

Maya Ariyoshi

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Tomoyuki Hosokawa

Assistant Professor Nobuhiko Yukinaga

Toshio Kurosawa

Secretary Nakata

Noboru Nakaya

Hideo Yoshimura

Kunie Tanaka

Tatsuno

Kenji Sahara

Nozue

Isao Hashimoto

Takamaru Sasaki

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Franz Gruber

Robert Caster

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Crew

Crew

• Shinichi Kamisawa Special Effects Assistant
• Koichi Kawakita Special Effects
• Eiichi Asada Special Effects Assistant
• Yoshio Tabuchi Special Effects
• Koichi Takano Special Effects

Editing

• Shosuke Funazawa Editor

Production

• Hitoshi Ogura Producer
• Takuo Yasuda Producer
• Yoji Hashimoto Producer
• Susumu Saito Producer
• Tomoyuki Tanaka Producer

Sound

• Kenjiro Hirose Original Music Composer

Writing

• Sakyo Komatsu Novel

Seasons & episodes