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Sekai daisensô

Sekai daisensô

1961Movie⏱️ 1h 50m
DramaSci-Fi
6.3
IMDB Rating
293 votes

The stories of Japanese civilians with the specter of a nuclear World War III looming.

Director
Shûe Matsubayashi
Writers
Toshio Yasumi, Takeshi Kimura, John Meredyth Lucas
Stars
Furankî Sakai, Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi
Release Date
January 8, 1967
Language
Japanese
Country
Japan
🎯 1
Nominations
💬 10
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Furankî Sakai
Furankî Sakai
as Mokichi Tamura
Akira Takarada
Akira Takarada
as Takano
Yuriko Hoshi
Yuriko Hoshi
as Saeko Tamura
Nobuko Otowa
Nobuko Otowa
as Oyoshi Tamura
Yumi Shirakawa
Yumi Shirakawa
as Teacher
Chishû Ryû
Chishû Ryû
as Ehara
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Jerry Itô
as Watkins
Eijirô Tôno
Eijirô Tôno
as Umehara
Sô Yamamura
Sô Yamamura
as Prime Minister
Ken Uehara
Ken Uehara
as Foreign Minister Kusaka

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
2.35 : 1
Sound
Perspecta Stereo
Color
Color
Production
Toho

🏷️ Keywords

psychotronic filmworld war threenuclear bombnuclear waratomic bomb

🎯 Categories

JapaneseDramaSci-Fi

⭐ Featured Review

1961 color/scope Japanese TOHO doomsday film made during cold war's peak, and definitely not to be confused w/THE FINAL WAR made a bit earlier in B&W by another studio.
by hideyotsuburaya2007-03-09
8/10

"This film has (almost) always been hopelessly confused w/THE FINAL WAR (B&W) in the past, so beware of this when referencing older reviews. SEKAI DAISENSO was to have been theatrically released in U.S. back in early '60s by Edward G. Alperson's BRENCO PICTURES CO. (after Columbia Pictures passed on it), but this never actually occurred. An English dubbing & edit was attempted by Brenco, but not quite finished. A trailer was also made using JFK's "...mankind must put an end to war..." speech. When shown on U.S. television as THE LAST WAR starting in the '7..."

💡 Did You Know?

Early in the film, Saeko says that four H-bombs would destroy Japan. Later images in the Alliance missile control-center shows four targeted areas on the map of Japan.

📖 Synopsis

The stories of Japanese civilians with the specter of a nuclear World War III looming.