"The Sinking of Japan"

[Mulboyne]

[floatr][/floatr]Twitch has noted the new trailers available for this summer's blockbuster, The Sinking of Japan. "The screenplay for Sinking of Japan was written by Masato Kato, based on the science-fiction book Nippon Chinbotsu by Sakyo Komatsu...Toho is scheduled to release Sinking of Japan theatrically in Japan on July 15th". The direct link for the new trailer is here while the official film website with the other trailers is here.

[dimwit]

A remake of the 1973 movie which I have yet to see. Sounds a lot like Earthquake and is probably just about as silly from a science viewpoint.



Help my dinky cars have been caught in a massive bathtub wave;)

[Mulboyne]

A remake of the 1973 movie

The producers apparently get upset when people say that since they claim they are going back to the original books rather than remaking the original film. I see their point but I think they are fighting a losing battle there.

[dimwit]

Someone told me that NOVA is one of the big sponsors of the movie, which should please most eikaiwa teachers.

The producers apparently get upset when people say that since they claim they are going back to the original books rather than remaking the original film. I see their point but I think they are fighting a losing battle there

I think they would have a little more success if a) they weren't using Johnny's Agency as a partner b) they weren't making a diasaster movie based on a very silly premise.

[Buraku]

The Japanese make a great disaster movie ?

http://www.nc06.jp/trailer/nc06_trailer3_l.mov

earthquakes and volcano eruptions hit Japanese and Japan is sinking into the sea

[Mulboyne]

I caught this film the other day. It is truly dreadful. There's a montage of its disaster clips on YouTube:

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The bloke on the plane is the Prime Minister.

[Oradea]

I enjoyed that movie...

However, there is also a cheap B movie came out the same time, which is called Everywhere but Japan Sinks.
Its even better

[Charles]

I caught this film the other day. It is truly dreadful. There's a montage of its disaster clips on YouTube:

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The bloke on the plane is the Prime Minister.

That was totally awesome. Loved the sequence of Omori warehouses in Hakodate (my old town) getting smashed to bits. I used to walk past the Omori warehouses every morning, and stop and rest on the little bridge that's the POV for those effects shots.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I'll probably never watch that piece of crap so go ahead and tell me why Japan sinks.

[dimwit]

I caught this film the other day. It is truly dreadful. There's a montage of its disaster clips on YouTube:

May Godzilla curse you. You just don't understand the appeal of cheesy diasaster movies. Earthquake was a classic. In fact, how can any movie with-Charlton Heston, George Kennedy, and Lorne Greene be bad.

[Mulboyne]

I like a trashy disaster film so I had some hopes for this in spite of the TV dorama cast. That sub-4 minute YouTube montage above constitutes most of the significant action which unfortunately leaves you twiddling your thumbs a lot during the 135 minute running time. I began to run the film at double speed during some of the tender, dramatic scenes and was surprised to see that the pace actually appeared to be more natural.

SJ, I've returned the copy so I can't look at it again but I vaguely recall that a series of volcanic eruptions create a massive magma plate which is heavy enough to drag the archipelago down.

SPOILER ALERT

Initially it looks like Japan has 40 years before disappearing but a maverick scientist argues that it has less than a year. There are scenes of riots in other countries as people rise up to refuse entry to Japanese refugees. As the scientist's prediction comes through, the treacherous Americans start to sell JGBs - "They promised us they would give us a year!". Quite why the film assumes that the financial markets wouldn't have already collapsed when news of the 40 year sell-by-date became public is beyond me.

The main love interest is between a marine scientist and a girl who was orphaned in the Kobe earthquake. She subsequently became a rescue worker. When he gets a job offer in England, she refuses to go with him because she has dedicated her life to saving people. How she expects to do that with Japan disappearing below the waves is unclear but we are expected to admire her sincerity and dedication.

[dimwit]

Giant sinkhole appears in Hakata street
A giant sinkhole appeared on a five-lane boulevard in central Fukoka, southwestern Japan, on November 8, 2016

A giant sinkhole appeared in the middle of a busy city on Tuesday, swallowing part of a five-lane street near the main railway station.

The gaping hole, around 20 meters by 15, exposed support columns of nearby buildings at a traffic intersection in Hakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, prompting fears of further collapses.

TV footage showed two separate holes steadily expanding as they sucked in asphalt and soil in front of Hakata Station, some time after 5 a.m.

“It was a bit dark outside, and my first impression was, ‘Is the road really falling?’” a young man who saw the sinkhole form told public broadcaster NHK.

[TennoChinko]

Tipping Point
Rep. Hank Johnson said he feared that stationing 8,000 Marines on Guam would cause the island to 'become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_John ... pping_over

Comments on Guam tipping over
During a House Armed Services Committee hearing on March 25, 2010 concerning the U.S. military installation on the island of Guam, Johnson said to Admiral Robert F. Willard, Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, "My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize", to which Admiral Willard replied, "We don't anticipate that." Johnson's office later backtracked by saying Johnson is simply a tremendous deadpan and that he was using a facetious metaphor.

The U.S. military had proposed building a new aircraft carrier berth on Guam and moving 8,600 Marines, and 9,000 of their dependents from Okinawa, Japan. Including the required construction workers, this buildup would increase Guam's population by 45%; the total land the military might control or tenant could grow to or surpass 40% of the entire landmass of Guam. In a February 2010 letter, the United States Environmental Protection Agency sharply criticized these plans because of a water shortfall, sewage problems and the impact on coral reefs. By 2012, these plans had been cut to only have a maximum of 4,800 Marines stationed on the island, two thirds of which would be there on a rotational basis without their dependents.

This genius also happens to be the only US Congressman who is a member of Soka Gakkai.

[Taro Toporific]

Giant sinkhole appears in Hakata street
A giant sinkhole appeared on a five-lane boulevard in central Fukoka, southwestern Japan, on November 8, 2016

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[Coligny]

Tssss... that's nothing compared to what happened the last time we let Francois Hollande drive one of our subs f his birthday party...

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[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Not at all surprising to see a French sub on land...

[Russell]

Giant sinkhole appears in Hakata street
A giant sinkhole appeared on a five-lane boulevard in central Fukoka, southwestern Japan, on November 8, 2016

A giant sinkhole appeared in the middle of a busy city on Tuesday, swallowing part of a five-lane street near the main railway station.

The gaping hole, around 20 meters by 15, exposed support columns of nearby buildings at a traffic intersection in Hakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, prompting fears of further collapses.

TV footage showed two separate holes steadily expanding as they sucked in asphalt and soil in front of Hakata Station, some time after 5 a.m.

“It was a bit dark outside, and my first impression was, ‘Is the road really falling?’” a young man who saw the sinkhole form told public broadcaster NHK.

That looks like a great opportunity for Japan to show its skills in pouring concrete...

[Taro Toporific]

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via @YabaiKankei

[Yokohammer]

That looks like a great opportunity for Japan to show its skills in pouring concrete...

It was Japan's skills in pouring concrete that caused the problem.

This can happen in Tokyo, Osaka, even Sendai ... any city that has underground structures. There have been a couple of similar but smaller-scale cases since around 2000, IIRC. Expect more as the infrastructure ages and expansion is attempted.

[Coligny]

That looks like a great opportunity for Japan to show its skills in pouring concrete...

It was Japan's skills in pouring concrete that caused the problem.

This can happen in Tokyo, Osaka, even Sendai ... any city that has underground structures. There have been a couple of similar but smaller-scale cases since around 2000, IIRC. Expect more as the infrastructure ages and expansion is attempted.

well... I let you guess while building size are restricted in most of Paris... or why every new day where the Sacre Coeur is still there considered a good day... The fun part is that when the river seine flood it not a normal water-go-over-banks issue. The flooding usually start few days before being witnessed... water invade shitloads of unmapped tunnels then when they are full bust up... And at this point you are up shitcreek without a paddle...

[Coligny]

Not at all surprising to see a French sub on land...

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"Baltringue have the con..."

[matsuki]

That looks like a great opportunity for Japan to show its skills in pouring concrete...

It was Japan's skills in pouring concrete that caused the problem.

This can happen in Tokyo, Osaka, even Sendai ... any city that has underground structures. There have been a couple of similar but smaller-scale cases since around 2000, IIRC. Expect more as the infrastructure ages and expansion is attempted.

THIS

Rivers don't need cement liners....

[Takechanpoo]