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One day soon...
Maybe even tomorrow...
An earthquake 30 kilometers under Suruga Bay, in Shizuoka Prefecture.
Two hours later...
Numazu, Shizuoka
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'II 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'II 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.
Doctor...
Doctor?
The results should be up soon.
Be right back.
Hey!
What the hell?!
What is this?!
Hey!
No!
Will you stop wasting our time and get to the point!
Megalith collapse is not the only problem we face.
Another change is taking place, which spells the end for Japan.
Delamination.
'Delamination'?
Layers of the crust peel off.
These are...
...bacteria from the mantle boundary.
These bacteria digest organic material to produce methane gas.
They flourish between the mantle and the plate...
...and produce huge amounts.
This methane liquefies and works as a lubricant.
That speeds up the plate as the megalith pulls on it.
Combined with the phenomenon called 'delamination'...
...it means...
...Japan will sink much faster than the Americans say.
If your hypothesis is correct...
...when will Japan sink?
This simulation takes 302 seconds.
That converts...
...to 338.54 days.
Not even a year?
This should receive urgent consideration.
Nonsense!
Prime Minister, this is unmitigated foolishness.
Tadokoro...
...this is all 'hunch' and imagination, isn't it.
'Objectivity and repeatability.'
Is that not what science is?
Repeatability?
Are you stupid?
Tadokoro! Show more respect.
Get lost, flunkey.
What?!
Listen up!
The fracture will start up in south Hokkaido.
And the Izumi fault down in Kyushu. Mt Aso will blow.
Then the Median Tectonic Line right across the middle of the country.
South of that will sink.
The energy will fracture every active fault zone in the country.
On the main island here...
...once the Fossa Magna formation splits, it'II be all over.
Fuji will blow, and Japan...
...will sink, just like that.
To study these changes, Prime Minister Yamamoto...
...will form the 'D1 Team.'
We don't even have a year.
It's no time for 'studies.'
Have it your way. You are free not to participate.
However, all your very latest in research equipment...
...will be transferred to D1.
Get serious!
I've got a million things to do with these ships!
Stop screaming like some kid who's had a toy taken away.
Why won't you ever grow up?
Fighting in front of the Prime Minister!
We split up 20 years ago. Stop acting like a wife.
You can stay out if you like. But D1 will be doing the research.
Maybe instead you should be thinking of how to get people out!
Tokyo Fire Department, 8th District
Attention!
Hyper-Rescue Unit
Brake! Land!
Next!
Rappelling Practice
Begin!
Releasing!
Brake!
Ready!
Right!
Brake!
Next!
Brake, check!
Ready!
Karabiner: Locked! Rope: Clear!
Fall point
Begin!
Brake!
Bye-bye!
What happened?
I had a bit of a fall.
I'II be off work for a while...
...so now we can play!
Come on!
It's love.
Huh?
My work. I really love it.
Oh.
The truth...
The truth is...
...I'm like Misaki.
I was in the Kobe Earthquake.
My parents got killed.
I was left alone.
That's how I came here.
I was trapped, it was pitch-dark, and I was scared.
The next day, someone from the Rescue Unit saved me.
So...
...I always thought I'd become someone who could rescue...
...a girl like me.
Now, with all these quakes...
...when I need to be ready...
...this happens!
There's no rush.
I've liked the ocean ever since I was a kid.
The deep ocean.
I was always reading books about it.
Deep-sea fish excited me.
Weird, huh?
Down deep there are creatures unchanged in millions of years.
Oh, sorry... I started talking about science again.
It's OK. Tell me more.
When I'm at the bottom...
...it's like the planet's holding me, like, I don't know...
...I feel safe.
Maybe like you're in your mother's womb?
Yeah. Like that.
What?
If you'd been my science teacher, I'm sure I would've liked science.
My research team is dissolved as of today.
You've put up with all my nonsense, and you're the world's best pilots.
You'II find other jobs.
But you'd better get out of this country right away.
However, the fact that Japan will sink in less than a year is top-secret.
Not a word to anyone.
The Wadatsumi 2000, the first Japanese submarine...
...able to reach 2,000 meters.
Tokyo International Airport Haneda
These are the essentials of the D2 foreign evacuation plan.
I wonder how many China will be willing to take...
Reira
What do you think?
It's my grand-daughter's name.
She's three tomorrow.
My daughter likes this song 'Layla', but it's too 'pretty' a name.
I said to give the poor kid a break, but she just wouldn't listen.
I want Reira to be happy.
I've had people in different fields...
...give me their opinions on the future of Japan.
Their visions of what we should do, assuming that with our economy gone...
...America and the other countries are bound to abandon us.
One idea surprised me.
An unusual idea, maybe...
Unusual in normal terms, anyway...
...but one which several people in different fields had.
And that was...
...the idea that we should do nothing.
Together with our loved ones, we should die with the land.
An idea like that...
...might be one only the Japanese would think of.
But...
I'm not speaking as Prime Minister. This is just my personal opinion.
To tell the truth...
...I like that idea best.
Prime Minister, it's time.
All right.
I know.
It wouldn't be acceptable.
And...
...before Reira is 'Japanese'...
...she is human.
We're human before anything else!
We all have the right to live...
...and to hope.
It's going to be hard, but look after things while I'm away.
Daisetsuzan Range, Hokkaido
Mts Tokachi and Furano erupt.
All right. Just a minute.
We've got earthquakes in southern Hokkaido.
Contact the Prime Minister.
But he'II be over Kyushu...
Mt Aso
Official charter flight.
City of Kumamoto
Mt Aso, in Kumamoto Prefecture, erupted at 1.50 p.m. Today.
The largest eruption ever recorded...
...has reportedly obliterated the entire Aso Caldera zone.
Prime Minister Yamamoto, en route for China...
...is also reported missing over the island of Kyushu.
General Disaster Standing Order 46
The Air Self-Defense Force scrambles RF-4EJ reconnaissance Phantoms.
Mts Unzen, Myoken, Kunimi erupted.
Sakurajima Island, Kagoshima Pref. Erupted.
Earthquakes on Shikoku and around Osaka at 3.52 p.m.
Epicenter: Yoshino River, Shikoku!
The Median Line...
Contact with Kochi lost.
Intermittent tremors in the north of the main island.
Minister, our lines to Kyushu are down.
I invoke the Disaster Measures Law. Call out the Self-Defense Forces.
Alert the Chiefs of Staff.
Earthquakes, Eruptions Without End
Kumamoto City Obliterated
Faults Crack Open
Massive Earthquakes Continue In Northeast
The register's down!
Wait!
Hold it!
...while the Joban Expressway...
...is backed up 80 kilometers north from Tokyo.
All domestic flights...
...have been suspended due to risk of earthquake.
State Of Emergency Declared
Stocks Plummet
ATM Closed
Five years? You mean lie to the public?
If I don't lie...
...this panic will destroy the country before it sinks.
If you don't like lying...
...then speed up our talks with other countries.
You're interim Prime Minister. That's your job.
Go to China and the U.S.
Let the Foreign Ministry do that. I don't want to go like Mr Yamamoto.
It's my duty to protect the public.
It is now clear...
...the Japanese archipelago will sink within five years.
The government...
...with its experience of past disasters...
...has prepared a coordinated response...
...to this eventuality.
All Japanese citizens will be evacuated to foreign countries.
You will be informed in due time of which countries will accept you.
Even now, arrangements with those nations are being made.
All that remains to be decided is which families...
...will go to which countries.
You will be informed as to where you are to assemble...
Reiko, is this OK?
No, this way...
Like that.
There.
Can you believe this?!
Japan's going to sink in five years!
Where do you think they're going to send us?
It's Las Vegas or Monaco for me!
What?! You don't have any money.
You shut up. I'm a gambler. I've got money!
You only ever play pachinko!
Hey, Yasu!
...as no rail lines can be used.
Turning to airlines...
Hokkaido
Kyushu
Shikoku
Hiroshima
New Tokyo International Airport, Narita
What are the countries saying?
They're reluctant to accept any more Japanese.
Tell our ambassadors to push harder!
I know that.
And find us ships.
Right.
Passenger ships, freighters, tankers, I don't care.
All the big ships you can find!
Kyoto
Bring that.
To America.
Those ships carrying National Treasures could be carrying people.
Shouldn't we be thinking of that?
Tell me about it.
I'm going to the States.
Just like you wanted.
Bribing America with art treasures...
Is that the Prime Minister's job?
Takamori, watch your mouth!
I'm talking about lives!
Look, here's the situation.
The red line is the 33.4 million we've evacuated.
The blue line is the 36.35 million dead.
And these...
...are the projections.
Some reports predict as many as 80 million dead.
So...
...how many people outside will take isn't a problem.
They'II be dead anyway.
Dead Missing
Japan...
Tell me how we save its people.
Tadokoro Laboratory
A thousand...
A hundred...
No...
...even one life more.
I want to save the people who are left here.
Let this newspaper be the plate that's pulling Japan into that trench.
Pull on it.
Go on. Pull hard.
That's how to save Japan from sinking.
As the plate is pulled...
...it bends, and cracks start to appear.
We drill shafts deep into the crust, and fill them...
...with explosive.
We set hundreds of them to blow in sequence.
And the plate...
...fractures.
Is there an explosive powerful enough to do that?
'N2.'
It's still experimental...
...but down in those shafts, it'II be like a nuclear bomb.
If we can slow down the Pacific plate, we can save more people.
If we're lucky, we can also limit how much of Japan sinks.
But we'd need just about every drillship in the world.
Getting all those ships will be almost impossible.
We interrupt this program...
...violent tremors...
Call this number for emergency information...
...powerful earthquakes in the center of the country...
Dead Missing Injured Bldgs Destroyed
...evacuate to higher ground.
Yokohama Harbor
Kobe Harbor
God dag.
We've made friends, haven't we.
Remember Mr Weis in Norway?
From the North Sea...
Yeah.
He's got a cottage.
My wife and son are there.
An English research team's made me an offer.
Want to come?
Me?
They'II take us both.
Me...
...I'm staying.
Why?
Dr Tadokoro's starting something, trying to save Japan.
I want to help.
Why?
My son.
To take him to the coast, where I used to go when I was a kid.
I want to teach him about the ocean.
Stupid, huh?
Please move to your designated assembly point.
Misaki!
What's wrong?
The hospital your mother's in just phoned!
Your mother!
She's woken up!
Mom!
Pressure 50.
Dopamine, 20 gamma.
Bradykinin!
Atropine!
Mom?
Mom!
Here.
Your daughter's here.
Misaki?
I'm so glad!
What?
Stay...
...alive.
Arrest!
Excuse me...
Mrs Kuraki!
Hold on!
Mrs Kuraki! Your daughter's here!
Mrs Kuraki!
She suddenly woke up.
All I can say is...
...it was a miracle.
I guess it was pure desire to see her daughter again.
Your mother...
...she told you.
Stay alive,'she said, didn't she.
Misaki...
Off the Boso Peninsula
America...
...Norway, France...
Even from China!
I'm amazed how fast you got them.
Is this really all right?
What?
You're risking what it's taken you more than 20 years to get.
Japan's sinking.
My job's the last thing I'm worried about.
Thanks.
Sorry?
Hakodate
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