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日本沈没
is a disaster novel by Japanese writer Sakyo Komatsu, published in 1973. Overview Komatsu took nine years to complete the work. It was published in two volumes, both released at the same time. The novel received the 27th Mystery Writers of Japan Award and the Seiun Award for a Japanese novel-length work. The English translation was first published in 1975. In 1995, after the Osaka-Kobe earthquake, a second English edition () was published. The English translation is abridged . In 2006, a sequel to the novel, co-authored with Kōshū Tani, was published. The novel has led to works in other media as well as a sequel: a film based on the novel made in the same year directed by Shirō Moritani, a manga adaptation written by Takao Saito and published in ''Weekly Shōnen Champion'' in 1973–74, a television drama by TBS and Toho broadcast in 1974–75, a film remake in 2006 by Shinji Higuchi, a parody created in 2011 that features reverse disaster, an original net anime ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Submersion Of Japan
is a Japanese disaster film directed by Shiro Moritani in 1973. It is based on the 1973 novel '' Japan Sinks'' by Sakyo Komatsu. The film stars Keiju Kobayashi, Hiroshi Fujioka and Ayumi Ishida. Plot Geophysicist Dr. Tadokoro and Onodera Toshio take the submarine ''Wadatsumi-1'' to the Ogasawara Islands, in order to investigate tremors in the seafloor. They discover that the land mass of the Japanese islands is collapsing into the Japan Trench. Afterward, Onodera is introduced to Abe Reiko, and the two become lovers. Relaxing on the beach, they witness an eruption of Mount Amagi. A meeting of government officials, including Prime Minister Yamamoto, focuses on assessing the disaster. Tadokoro warns that more eruptions and earthquakes are imminent, but his claims are rejected as alarmist. He later meets with a mysterious wealthy man named Mr. Watari, who agrees to fund the doctor's research expeditions. With this funding, he develops a course of action to address a nationwide ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinking Of Japan
is a 2006 Japanese ''tokusatsu'' disaster film directed by Shinji Higuchi. It is an adaptation of the novel '' Japan Sinks'' and a remake of its earlier film adaptation '' Submersion of Japan'', both released in the year 1973. It stars Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Kou Shibasaki, Etsushi Toyokawa and Mao Daichi. Plot Submersible pilot Toshio Onodera wakes up pinned inside his car in Numazu following an earthquake. As an aftershock triggers an explosion, a rescue helicopter led by Reiko Abe saves him and a young girl named Misaki while a nearby volcano erupts. Reiko's family takes in Misaki as her injured mother dies. Following the earthquake, a scientist warns the Japanese government that the nation will sink within 40 years. Geoscientist Yusuke Tadokoro doubts the prediction and analyzes rocks in Kyushu, Hokkaido, and Mangaia in the Cook Islands, where he hypothesizes that the rock came from the ancient continent of Japan after it split from Pangaea. Tadokoro realizes Japan will sink i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakyo Komatsu
was a Japanese science fiction writer and screenwriter. He was one of the most well known and highly regarded science fiction writers in Japan. Early life Born Minoru "Sakyo" Komatsu in Osaka, he was a graduate of Kyoto University where he studied Italian literature. After graduating, he worked at various jobs, including as a magazine reporter and a writer for stand-up comedy acts."Sci-fi pioneer Komatsu dies at age 80" ''The Japan Times'', July 29, 2011 Career Komatsu's writing career began in the 1960s. Reading and Italian classics made Komatsu feel modern literature and science fiction are the same. In 1961, he submitted for the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōshū Tani
is a Japanese science fiction writer. He graduated from the Osaka Institute of Technology, and worked as a volunteer in Nepal and the Philippines. He made his professional debut with the story ''137th Mobile Brigade'' in 1979 while still in Nepal. He is known mostly for his hard science fiction works, for which he won the Seiun Award three times (twice for Best Novel, and once for Best Short Story), and the Nitta Jirō Culture Award once. He is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan, the Space Authors Club, and an associate member of the Hard SF Laboratory. Tani currently lives in Komatsu in Ishikawa Prefecture. History Tani studied at the Osaka Institute of Technology, graduating from the engineering department with a degree in civil engineering. After graduating, he helped coordinate construction work by the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers in Nepal, and also worked with the Japan International Cooperation Agenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seiun Award
The is a Japanese speculative fiction award given each year for the best science fiction works and achievements during the previous calendar year. Organized and overseen by , the awards are given at the annual Nihon SF Taikai, Japan Science Fiction Convention. It is the oldest SF award in Japan, being given since the 9th Japan Science Fiction Convention in 1970. "Seiun", the Japanese word for "nebula", was taken from the first professional science fiction magazine in Japan, which had a short run in 1954. The award is not related to the American Nebula Award. It is similar to the Hugo Award, which is presented by the members of the World Science Fiction Society, in that all of the members of the presenting convention are eligible to participate in the selection process, though it is not a one-on-one comparison as the Hugo Awards are open to works from anywhere in any language, while the Seiun is implicitly limited to works released in Japan and written in or translated to Japane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinji Higuchi
is a Japanese filmmaker. Known for his ''tokusatsu'' blockbusters, Higuchi is considered one of Japan's leading filmmakers of the 21st century. Higuchi became known for his work on '' Gamera: Guardian of the Universe'', for which he won the Special Technology Award at the 19th Japan Academy Film Prize. In 2005, he made his feature directorial debut on '' Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean''. His second feature film, '' Sinking of Japan'' (2006), was second place at the Bunshun Kiichigo Awards. His 2015 live-action two-part film adaptation of Hajime Isayama's manga series, ''Attack on Titan'', won the Excellence in Theatrical Live Action Film award at the 2016 VFX-JAPAN Awards. In 2017, Higuchi and Hideaki Anno won the Director of the Year award at the 40th Japan Academy Film Prize for their work on the 2016 ''kaiju'' film '' Shin Godzilla.'' His 2022 film, '' Shin Ultraman'', was a major success in Japan, and has received generally positive reviews from critics interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystery Writers Of Japan Award
The are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of Japan. They honor the best in crime fiction and critical/biographical work published in the previous year. MWJ Award for Best Novel winners (1948–1951, 1976–present) MWJ Award for Best Short Story winners (1948–1951, 1976–present) MWJ Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work winners (1976–present) * MWJ Award for Best Work (1952–1975) winners for their Critical Work ** 05 (1952) - EDOGAWA Rampo, ''Gen'ei-jo'' (Studies on detective fiction) ** 19 (1966) - Kawataro Nakajima, ''Suiri Shosetsu Tembo'' (Studies on detective fiction) MWJ Award for Best Work winners (1952–1975) Nominees available in English translation * Nominees for Best Novel ** 02 (1949) - Akimitsu Takagi, ** 02 (1949) - Seishi Yokomizo, ** 37 (1984) - Kenzo Kitakata, ** 42 (1989) - Joh Sasaki, ** 65 (2012) - Mahokaru Numata, ** 71 (2018) - Mizuki Tsujimura, * Nominees for Short Story ** 08 (1955) - Tetsuya Ayukawa, ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Gallagher (translator)
Michael Gallagher (born 1930) is an author and translator of Japanese literature. His translation of Yukio Mishima's '' Spring Snow'' was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1973, while his nonfiction work ''Laws of Heaven'' was the winner of the Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Book Award in Theology. As a Jesuit scholastic, he spent three years teaching English at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he directed several plays, including '' The Teahouse of the August Moon''. He left the Jesuit order and served briefly as a paratrooper in Korea. Translations *'' Japan Sinks'' by Sakyo Komatsu *'' The Sea and Poison'' by Shusaku Endo *'' Spring Snow'' by Yukio Mishima *''Runaway Horses'' by Yukio Mishima *''The Pornographers'' by Akiyuki Nosaka Books *''Dust and Gingko Leaves'' (published in Japanese translation by Kodansha is a Japanese privately held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha publishes manga magazines which include ''Nakayoshi' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toho
is a Japanese entertainment company that primarily engages in producing and distributing films and exhibiting stage plays. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Osaka-based Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. Toho is best known for producing and distributing many of Ishirō Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya's ''kaiju'' and ''tokusatsu'' films as well as the films of Akira Kurosawa and the anime of Studio Ghibli, Shin-Ei Animation, TMS Entertainment, CoMix Wave Films, and OLM, Inc. The company has released the majority of the highest-grossing Japanese films, and through its subsidiaries, is the largest film importer in Japan. The Doraemon film series, distributed by Toho since 1980, is the highest-grossing film series and anime film series in Japan. It is also one of the highest-grossing non-English language film series. Toho Company Limited logo with full name in native language Toho's most famous creation is Godzilla, featured in 33 of the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nihon Igai Zenbu Chinbotsu
is a 2006 Japanese black comedy film directed by Minoru Kawasaki, as a parody of the 2006 film '' Sinking of Japan''. It is based on the 1973 short story of the same name by Yasutaka Tsutsui (a parody of the novel '' Japan Sinks'', released the same year), which criticizes nationalism and racism. It also describes humans as powerless against disaster. Plot In 2011 the greatest tectonic disaster in the history of mankind occurs. As a result of catastrophic earthquakes, massive volcanic eruptions, and huge tsunamis, North and South America, Eurasia, Africa, Indonesia and Australia sink underwater while the Japanese islands remain untouched, thanks to the Chinese land which has sunk and gone underneath them. Japan suddenly discovers that it is the destination for all the world's surviving refugees. Consequently, they are all forced to make uncomfortable adjustments in order to share the world's last habitable landmass. However, they finally discover that the Japanese islands wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weekly Shōnen Champion
is a Japanese Shōnen manga, ''shōnen'' manga magazine published by Akita Shoten. History ''Shōnen Champion'' was first published on July 15, 1969. It has had numerous popular series by manga artists such as Osamu Tezuka, Go Nagai, Shinji Mizushima, Masami Kurumada, Keisuke Itagaki. The magazine is published every Thursday. It had a circulation of 250,000 from 1 October 2018 to 30 September 2019. A digital supplement manga magazine titled ''Champion Buzz'' began publication on October 5, 2023. Currently running manga series There are currently 26 manga titles being serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Champion''. Out of them ''Baki the Grappler, Baki Gaiden: Scarface'' is published on an irregular basis. Past series *''750 Rider'' *''The Abashiri Family'' *''AI no Idenshi'' *''Akumetsu'' *''Alabaster (manga), Alabaster'' *''Apocalypse Zero'' *''Atsumare! Fushigi Kenkyū-bu'' *''Babel II'' *''Baki the Grappler'' *''Beastars'' *''Black Jack (manga), Black Jack'' by Osamu Tezuka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Original Net Animation
An original net animation (ONA), known in Japan as , is an anime that is directly released onto the Internet. ONAs may also have been aired on television if they were first directly released on the Internet. The name mirrors original video animation, a term that has been used in the anime industry for straight-to-video animation since the early 1980s. A growing number of trailers and preview episodes of new anime have been released as ONA. For example, the anime movie of '' Megumi'' can be considered an ONA. ONAs have the tendency to be shorter than traditional anime titles, sometimes running only a few minutes. There are many examples of an original net animation, such as '' Hetalia: Axis Powers'', which only last a few minutes per episode. But while that was true for the beginning of the 2010s, this began to change in the second half of the decade as full series began to be licensed exclusively for streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+. The majority ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
