This is one of the rarest of Toho’s Tokusatsu films. But what the heck, I managed to see it anyway. Mind you, while I didn’t exactly see it in the worst way possible — after all, the quality of the film itself was quite good — I came fairly close. I couldn’t find any subtitles […]
Read more "Shuto shôshitsu [Tokyo Blackout] (1987)"(aka Day of Resurrection, The End, Virus: The End) I suppose it was inevitable. You can blame Irwin Allen who popularized the genre in the U.S., but it really wasn’t much of a surprise that the Japanese turned out a handful of disaster movies in the Seventies. Nor was it much of a surprise that […]
Read more "Fukkatsu no hi [Virus] (1980)"Back in the Seventies, Toho Studios tried their hand at the Blockbuster disaster film (which was one of the most extremely popular genres in the US at the time), complete with what can only be described as a Godzilla-sized disaster. While the Americanized version (complete with a minor American star or two) is known here […]
Read more "Nihon igai zenbu chinbotsu [The World Sinks Except Japan] (2006)"
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