# Virus (1980)

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**Original title**: *復活の日*
**Runtime**: 156 min
**Genres**: Horror, Science Fiction, Drama
**Directed by**: Kinji Fukasaku
**Written by**: Kinji Fukasaku, Kōji Takada, Gregory Knapp
**Starring**: Glenn Ford, Robert Vaughn, Masao Kusakari, Yumi Takigawa, Henry Silva, Bo Svenson

> *Autumn 1982: Mankind has been wiped out except 863 persons on Antarctica. Who will inherit the earth?*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Frigid midnight. Diesel generators hum. The last thermometer reads -60C.

An outpost of bloodstained scrubs toggles microscopes by candlelight as a pink lymph sample curdles slowly under the glass. The radio hisses static and a child’s cough.

Fukasaku’s 1980 grindhouse fable: the end comes dressed in fogged breath and the smell of burnt wiring.

**Mood tags**: dread, gut-punch, slow-burn

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