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Pandemic (2009)
Directed by Takahisa Zeze
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Overview
ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he’s seen before. His symptoms include high fever, convulsions, vomiting of blood and multiple organ failure. Could this be a new form of influenza or is it some other variety of virus? As the situation worsens and more cases begin arriving, a medical officer from the World Health Organization named Eiko Kobayashi is dispatched to the area. At the rate the virus is spreading, the entire city’s transportation system and infrastructure would be brought to a halt within 3 months. Within 6 months it could spread to tens of millions of people—reaching a death toll far worse than any war.
Length 138 minutes
Actors
Satoshi Tsumabuki | Rei Dan | Ryoko Kuninaka | Yoji Tanaka | Chizuru Ikewaki | Takanori Takeyama | Ken Mitsuishi | Midoriko Kimura | Kyusaku Shimada | Akio Kaneda | Bokuzō Masana | Dante Carver | Ayaka Komatsu | Akifumi Miura | Natsuo | Taiga | Takeshi Itô | Yoshiko Yoshino | Tatsuya Fuji | Koichi Sato | Usagi Ōyama | Taro Suwa | Hiroshi Umeda | Shirô Shimomoto | Runa Matsumoto | Atsushi Yamanaka | Sô Yamanaka
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07/30/2024 | TV | Broadcast | TV | 6 stars |
| (Average) 6 stars |
Viewing Notes
Second movie in the JP disaster double feature on DKUTV and another channel premiere, which is why I wanted to watch both movies tonight. This one is fine, perhaps a little overly melodramatic. Biggest issue is that I really don’t need to watch anymore “pandemic” films at this point, even if it’s as prescient as this one. Eerie how similar the events in this are to when the coronavirus happened. Lots of familiar images in a film that was released over a decade prior.
For me this biggest crime is giving Ayaka Komatsu (Sailor Venus) barely any screentime. A few years later there was a Korean movie with the same premise: The Flu (2013), which I like a lot more.
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