Tokyo Blackout

Tokyo Blackout
Tokyo Blackout
Directed by	Toshio Masuda
Screenplay by	; Toshio Masuda;
Based on	the novel; by Sakyo Komatsu
Produced by	; Shichirō Murakami;
Starring	Tsunehiko Watase; ; Shinji Yamashita;
Cinematography	Masahiko Iimura
Edited by	Toshio Taniguchi
Music by	Maurice Jarre
Production; companies	Kansai Telecasting Corporation; Tokuma Shoten; Daiei Film;
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	17 January 1987 (Japan);
Running time	120 minutes
Country	Japan
Box office	760,000,000 yen (Japan)

Tokyo Blackout (首都消失, Shuto shōshitsu)(Disappearance of the Capital) is a 1987 Japanese science fiction film directed by Toshio Masuda.^[1] It is based on the Sakyo Komatsu's novel Shuto shōshitsu^[3] which won the 6th Nihon SF Taisho Award in 1985.^[4] This film's score was composed by Maurice Jarre,^[1] and special effects were directed by Teruyoshi Nakano.^[1]

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
as Mariko Koide
Shinji Yamashita as Yosuke Tamiya
Isao Natsuyagi as Eiji Sakuma
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
as Matsukichi Kimura
Fumio Watanabe as Osaka Prefecture Governor Komuro
Hideji Ōtaki as Professor Otawara
Tetsurō Tamba as Representative Nakata

Source for cast ^[1]

Release[]

Tokyo Blackout was released theatrically in Japan on 11 January 1987 where it was distributed by Toho.^[1] It was released in the United States by Toho International on 29 August 1987.^[1]

References[]

Footnotes[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Galbraith IV 2008, p. 353.
^ "邦画フリーブッキング配収ベスト作品". キネマ旬報. (（63年）下旬号): 191. 1988.
^ "首都消失とは". kotobank. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
^ "Nihon SF Taisho Award Winners List". Science Fiction Writers of Japan. Retrieved 2010-01-28.

Sources[]

Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1461673743.

External links[]

Tokyo Blackout at IMDb
Tokyo Blackout at AllMovie

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[FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008353-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Galbraith IV 2008, p. 353.

[2] "邦画フリーブッキング配収ベスト作品". キネマ旬報. (（63年）下旬号): 191. 1988.

[3] "首都消失とは". kotobank. Retrieved 2021-01-16.

[4] "Nihon SF Taisho Award Winners List". Science Fiction Writers of Japan. Retrieved 2010-01-28.

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