Japan Sinks

Tokyo. Summer. A child's lost shoe. The ocean heats as the archipelago cracks apart. Evacuation orders blare. One scientist races against catastrophe while the prime minister begs for international assistance. Disaster-movie architecture, rendered with early-aughts digital melancholy.

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Shinji Higuchi directed Japan Sinks in 2006. See Shinji Higuchi's full filmography, where to start with Shinji Higuchi, or where to go after you've seen everything by Shinji Higuchi.

Japan Sinks was released in 2006 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 135 minutes.