Tokyo Blackout

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 Sakyo Komatsu's novel Shuto shōshitsu[3] which won the 6th Nihon SF Taisho Award in 1985.[4] The film's score was composed by Maurice Jarre,[1] and special effects were directed by Teruyoshi Nakano.[1]

Tokyo Blackout
Directed byToshio Masuda
Screenplay by
  • Hiroyasu Yamaura
  • Toshio Masuda
Based onthe novel
by Sakyo Komatsu[1]
Produced by
  • Yasuyoshi Tokuma
  • Shichirō Murakami
Starring
CinematographyMasahiko Iimura
Edited byToshio Taniguchi
Music byMaurice Jarre
Production
companies
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • 17 January 1987 (1987-01-17) (Japan)
Running time
120 minutes[1]
CountryJapan
Box office760,000,000 yen (Japan)[2]

Plot

One day, Tokyo and its metropolitan area are suddenly covered by a giant dome-shaped and electromagnetic "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 government. 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, General Manager of Hokuto Electric's Technology Development Department
  • Yūko Natori as Mariko Koide, freelance journalist
  • Shinji Yamashita as Yosuke Tamiya, Kansai Broadcasting Press
  • Isao Natsuyagi as Eiji Sakuma, JASDF
  • Ichirō Zaitsu as Kawamura, Director of Kansai Broadcasting Press
  • Yōko Ishino as Mieko Matsunaga, college student and part-time employee at Hokuto Electric Research Institute
  • Raita Ryū as Horie, Deputy Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Bureau
  • Ittoku Kishibe as Yasuhara, member of Hokuto Electric Research Institute
  • Yoshie Taira as Yumiko Asakura, wife of Tatsuya Asakura
  • Sei Hiraizumi as Wada, Kansai Broadcasting Society Department Desk
  • Shōji Yasui as Ambassador to the United States Otsuki
  • Kei Taguchi as Ambassador to the United Kingdom Uekusa
  • Renji Ishibashi as Miyoshi, Secretary of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
  • Haruko Katō as Umeko Koide, Mariko's mother
  • Norihei Miki 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
  1. 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. キネマ旬報社 (1988年（昭和63年）2月下旬号): 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.

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