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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis is a film of genre Science fiction directed by Akio Jissōji with Shintarō Katsu

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1988)

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
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Length 2h15
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Genres Science fiction,    Thriller,    Fantasy,    Horror,    Animation
Rating60% 3.0028253.0028253.0028253.0028253.002825

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (帝都物語, Teito monogatari) is a tokusatsu historical fantasy/science fiction epic film directed by Akio Jissoji, produced by "Exe" studios and distributed by Toho Studios. It is the first cinematic adaptation of the award winning historical fantasy novel Teito Monogatari by Hiroshi Aramata. It stars Kyusaku Shimada, Shintaro Katsu, Koji Takahashi, Jo Shishido, Junichi Ishida, Mieko Harada, Ko Nishimura, and Shiro Sano among others. With a budget of around 1 billion yen (roughly $8 million), the movie was one of the most expensive live action Japanese special effects films to have ever been produced during that decade (by contrast, the internationally released 1984 film The Return of Godzilla was only budgeted at $6.25 million). The movie received a great deal of publicity with the media highlighting the grand recreation of circa 1927 Ginza district being made just for use in the film. The open set, which cost around 300 million yen by itself, was an 150 meter long life sized facsimile of the early Showa era district featuring several electric cable cars and 3000 fully costumed extras.

The movie went on to become a notable success in Japan, becoming the third highest grossing Japanese produced movie of 1988. It helped propel the careers of some important figures in the contemporary Japanese film industry and aided in kicking off a new wave of similarly themed fantasy occult media (see "Legacy" below).

Synopsis

The live-action film is an adaptation of the first 1/3rd of the original novel or the first four volumes (out of a total of 12).

Actors

Shintarō Katsu

(Eichi Shibusawa)Kyūsaku Shimada

(Yasunori Kato)Mieko Harada

(Keiko Tatsumiya)Jun'ichi Ishida
Shirō Sano

(Junichi Narumi)
And :
Mikijirō Hira
Kō Nishimura
Bandō Tamasaburō V
Hisashi Igawa
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