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The World Sinks Except Japan (2006)
Directed by Minoru Kawasaki
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In the year 2011 the greatest tectonic disaster in the history of mankind has occurred. As a result of the catastrophic earthquakes North and South America, Eurasia, Africa and Australia have sunken underwater while the Japanese islands remain untouched.
Length 98 minutes
Actors
Yasutaka Tsutsui | Dave Spector | Hiroshi Fujioka | Kenji Kohashi | Masatoshi Matsuo | Cynthia Cheston | Arthur Kuroda | Hitomi Takashima | Shûji Kashiwabara | Kenji Motomiya | Gregory Pekar | Ryôji Okamoto | Takenori Murano | Jon Heese | Takashi Matsuo | Blake Crawford | Avery Fane | Delcea Mihaela Gabriela | Ian Moore
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06/05/2014 | TV | DVD | Rented | 4 stars |
| (Average) 4 stars |
Viewing Notes
Watchable but can’t recommend. Rented for the crazy premise but this is social commentary disguised as satire masquerading as humor. So what would happen if all the continents sank into the ocean leaving only Japan? This movie attempts to tell that story using culture differences and general dislike of foreigners.
It lays on the satire pretty thick to make fun of Japanese culture and how they think about those not Japanese. Yet I can’t help but think that rather than being an indictment of that behavior the subtext is celebrating it. This is a weird movie where even the stars provide an introduction to state that “hey it’s only a movie” and “this is just us playing around with ideas of a crazy situation” when really this wouldn’t be far from reality if such a disaster were to occur.
I’m probably making this sound more interesting than it really is but honestly this is not worth the time to view. The acting is awful across the board and humor is flat. Actually nothing is funny here not even in a “it’s so bad it’s funny.” It’s just stilted and boring and only serves a vehicle to highlight cultural differences we already know. We get it; Japanese do not truly accept outsiders and treat them as a lower class. This movie pounds this over and over ad nauseam.
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