Japan Sinks (Nihon Chinbotsu / 日本沈没) (日本沈没)

One day soon...

Maybe even tomorrow...

An earthquake 30 kilometers under Suruga Bay, in Shizuoka Prefecture.

Two hours later...

Numazu, Shizuoka

Hey!

Hey!

Are you OK?

You're all right?

Yes.

SINKING OF JAPAN

Original Novel by Sakyo Komatsu

Executive Producers Kunikatsu Kondo

Executive Producers Kazuya Hamana

Producer Toshiaki Nakazawa

Screenplay Masato Kato

Music Taro Iwadai

Starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi Kou Shibasaki

Mitsuhiro Oikawa

Mayuko Fukuda Hideko Yoshida Akira Emoto

Jun Kunimura

Special Guest Star Kouji Ishizaka

Also starring Etsushi Toyokawa

Mao Daichi

Supervisor of Visual Effects Katsuro Onoue

Director of Special Effects Makoto Kamiya

Directed by Shinji Higuchi

These images, based on our research, show the end of the Japanese islands.

It is clear that, in the near future, Japan will sink.

The large earthquake the other day in Suruga Bay was one such sign.

The probability is 50%% within 30 years...

...and 80%% within 50 years.

Due to mantle convection, the Pacific Ocean plate below the Japan Sea...

...is accumulating at the border of the upper and lower mantles.

The accumulated plate is known as a megalith.

Once it exceeds a certain size, it collapses.

This phenomenon is called 'megalith collapse.'

This massive event is starting to occur right under Japan.

The Japanese archipelago, located on the edge of the plate...

...will be pulled into the ocean by changes in the earth's crust.

Accompanied by catastrophic earthquakes and eruptions...

...Japan will sink.

The only positive thing is that we can predict this decades in advance.

Unfortunately, however, there is no hope for Japan.

Off Kinkazan, Miyagi Pref.

Center for Ocean Development Deep Submersible 'Wadatsumi 6500'

This is Wadatsumi 6500. In Japan Trench, depth 5830 meters.

Dropping ballast.

Water temperature 1.2, salinity 36.4. Trim is good.

120 meters to target.

What's that?

That's new to me...

That's a lot of gas.

What's happening?

The camera!

What the hell?!

The bow's damaged. Take her up. Full speed.

Roger.

Drop ballast.

Wait...

4.5...

3.2...

Drop!

You did it again!

Thanks.

Yokosuka, Kanagawa

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology (JAMSTEC)

3.2... drop ballast...

Surface...

It's your mother. Were you OK in that earthquake?

At least call and let me know if you're all right...

Right there.

If you would.

Onodera! You've got a visitor.

I'm surprised you found me.

Here.

I fixed it.

Thank you.

I'm sorry! I had a few problems...

Uh, thanks.

Wow!

What's this ship?

A deep-driller.

210 meters long, with a 121-meter tower.

It can put a pipe down 4,000 meters...

...and drill 7,000 meters into the sea-bed.

It can reach the mantle...

...for tectonic research, or environmental change...

Too fast?

I always hated maths and science...

Sorry.

Can you climb to the top?

Yes.

I'd love to do that!

Sorry?

My grandpa was a fireman. Head of the citizens' fire brigade.

At the New Year's rite he'd be up on the ladder.

That was cool.

Are you listening?

Uh, yeah...

Because of him, I came to just love high places.

So you joined the rescue unit?

I wished I'd been born a man like him.

Yeah, but...

...when you rescued us...

...you were as cool as a man.

Even cooler.

Thanks.

Misaki told me you were trying to save her.

Misaki?

The girl.

Could you visit her?

The earthquake killed her father.

They pulled her mother out of the wreckage, but she's in a coma.

The girl's depressed...

...but she wants to talk to you.

Shinagawa, Tokyo

Hyottoko

Is it ready yet?

No!

We're waiting!

Not yet!

Beer for you?

'Scuse me.

There!

Not quite.

It looks OK now.

Yeah, OK.

I'm putting the sake here.

Great!

OK?

Give her a clean one!

I don't need advice from you!

Aw, shuddup!

Turn off the gas!

Another earthquake!

Yasu! What's going on?

Don't ask me!

Why not? You work for the city taking my taxes!

Since when do you pay taxes?

What's City Hall got to do with earthquakes?

It's OK.

You'll be fine.

I'm thinking of creating a Ministry of Disaster Management.

Make it an additional portfolio.

For whom?

You, Minister. Along with your Science portfolio.

Wait, Prime Minister...

The others have no sense of crisis. They say we've still got 30 years.

But...

In the face of this crisis, we should abandon the weak.

Postpone evacuation of citizens over 60.

Many in the party think that.

Ms Takamori...

...what do you think...

...is most important now?

I think it's 'heart.'

'Heart'?

Or at least the heartfelt wish to save every single person we can.

Am I being impractical?

No, I don't think so.

Then take the portfolio. You have the heart for it.

Off Cape Ashizuri, Kochi Pref.

Deep-Sea Drilling Vessel 'Chikyu'

A team under Dr Yusuke Tadokoro of the Earthquake Research Institute...

...begins research into earthquake prediction.

Investigations with this drill-ship...

...examine changes in mantle flow in the 'Japan Trench'...

...which runs parallel to Japan in the Pacific Ocean.

A segmented pipe string is lowered straight down from the vessel...

...to depths of up to 4,000 meters.

Blowout Preventer

Secured to the sea floor, it can drill 7,000 meters into the earth's crust.

Fire!

Induced-tremor research.

Crust analysis through propagation of ground waves.

Undersea Mountain Range, Kagoshima. Depth 3803 meters.

Take a sample.

Roger.

Cook Islands, South Pacific

Mangaia Island

We simulated the lower mantle. 100 gigapascals at 3,000 degrees.

It was a shock, I'll tell you. Where did you get this?

In the South Pacific, on the Cook Islands.

What did you find?

Like you said. It's 20 million years old.

About the time Japan split off from Eurasia.

The bits of megalith that fell into the mantle then...

...came up in the Cook Islands.

The ohm readings have changed over the past six months.

The magma's moving strangely.

You've been sniffing around.

Have you hit on anything?

The mantle's moving strangely down in the Cook Islands.

From ground waves at Daisetsuzan, Tanzawa, and the northern Alps...

...I've found unusual activity in the earth's crust.

I see...

If you're right...

...something big is about to happen.

Data analysis predicts time of geological event.