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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 by	Toshio Masuda
Screenplay by	Hiroyasu Yamaura Toshio Masuda
Based on	the novel by Sakyo Komatsu[1]
Produced by	Yasuyoshi Tokuma Shichirō Murakami
Starring	Tsunehiko Watase Yūko Natori Shinji Yamashita
Cinematography	Masahiko Iimura
Edited by	Toshio Taniguchi
Music by	Maurice Jarre
Production companies	Kansai Telecasting Corporation Tokuma Shoten Daiei Film
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	17 January 1987 (1987-01-17) (Japan)
Running time	120 minutes[1]
Country	Japan
Box office	760,000,000 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

Sources

External links

• Tokyo Blackout at IMDb
• Tokyo Blackout at AllMovie

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