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Sakyo Komatsu is a Director, Scriptwriter and Executive Producer Japonais born on 28 january 1931 at Osaka City (Japon)
Sakyo Komatsu (小松 左京, Komatsu Sakyō, January 28, 1931 – July 26, 2011) was a Japanese science fiction writer and screenwriter. He was one of the most well known and highly regarded science fiction writers in Japan.
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Birth name Minoru Komatsu
Nationality Japon
Birth 28 january 1931 at Osaka City (Japon)
Death 26 july 2011 (at 80 years) at Osaka City (Japon)
Nationality Japon
Birth 28 january 1931 at Osaka City (Japon)
Death 26 july 2011 (at 80 years) at Osaka City (Japon)
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Filmography of Sakyo Komatsu (6 films)
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Sayonara Jupiter (1984)
, 2h10Directed by Sakyo Komatsu, Kōji Hashimoto
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Space opera
Actors Akihiko Hirata, Tomokazu Miura, Masumi Okada, Andrew Hughes, Hisaya Morishige, Miyuki Ono
Rating43%
It's the 22nd Century (2125 AD), and mankind's population has exponentially expanded beyond Earth's handling. Therefore, humans now live throughout the Solar System and the total population has gone well over 18 billion. As a result, there's a severe energy crisis for planets further out from the sun and plans to turn Jupiter into a second sun have been set into motion. However, markings are found on Mars that indicates that alien life lives in Jupiter and the J.S. Project (Jupiter Solarization Project) is put on hold.
Scriptwriter
Japan Sinks (2006)
, 2h15Directed by Shinji Higuchi
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Volcanisme, Films based on science fiction novels, Films about volcanoes, Disaster films, Films about earthquakes
Actors Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Kō Shibasaki, Etsushi Toyokawa, Akira Emoto, Hideaki Anno, Mayuko Fukuda
Roles Novel
Rating56%
Submersible pilot Toshio Onodera wakes up pinned inside his car in Numazu after an earthquake wreaks havoc in the city and nearby Suruga Bay. As aftershock triggers an explosion, a rescue helicopter led by Reiko Abe saves him and a young girl named Misaki.
Sayonara Jupiter (1984)
, 2h10Directed by Sakyo Komatsu, Kōji Hashimoto
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Space opera
Actors Akihiko Hirata, Tomokazu Miura, Masumi Okada, Andrew Hughes, Hisaya Morishige, Miyuki Ono
Roles Story
Rating43%
It's the 22nd Century (2125 AD), and mankind's population has exponentially expanded beyond Earth's handling. Therefore, humans now live throughout the Solar System and the total population has gone well over 18 billion. As a result, there's a severe energy crisis for planets further out from the sun and plans to turn Jupiter into a second sun have been set into motion. However, markings are found on Mars that indicates that alien life lives in Jupiter and the J.S. Project (Jupiter Solarization Project) is put on hold.
Virus (1980)
, 2h36Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Social science fiction, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes La fin du monde, Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Films about viral outbreaks, Catastrophe épidémiologique, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Sonny Chiba, Bo Svenson, Glenn Ford, George Kennedy, Masao Kusakari, Olivia Hussey
Roles Novel
Rating62%
In 1982, a shady transaction is occurring between an East German scientist, Dr. Krause, and a group of Americans. It is revealed that MM88 is a deadly virus, created accidentally by an American geneticist, that amplifies the potency of any other virus or bacterium it comes into contact with. The Americans recover the MM88, which was stolen from a lab in the US the year before, but the virus is released, creating a pandemic initially known as the "Italian Flu".
ESPY (1974)
, 1h34Directed by Jun Fukuda
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Actors Hiroshi Fujioka, Kaoru Yumi, Eiji Okada, Tomisaburō Wakayama, Yūzō Kayama, Masao Kusakari
Roles Novel
Rating56%
The film deals with the recruitment of racecar driver Jiro Miki (Kusakari) and his dog, Cheetah, to a group of people who use ESP, psychokinesis, and other special mental abilities to fight crime. The major villain is Wolf (Wakayama), whose behavior stems as a result of the prejudicial murder of his father over his father's psychic abilities.
Submersion of Japan (1973)
, 2h23Directed by Shirō Moritani
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Films based on science fiction novels, Disaster films
Actors Keiju Kobayashi, Ayumi Ishida, Hiroshi Fujioka, Tetsurō Tanba, Lorne Greene, Shōgo Shimada
Roles Novel
Rating55%
Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes shake Japan. Firestorms burn beautiful Japanese cities to the ground. A weather survey group discovers that the Japanese Archipelago is moving towards the Japanese Trench, which if left to continue on its collision course, would bring the whole island of Japan under the sea.
Matango (1963)
, 1h29Directed by Ishirō Honda
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Actors Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kenji Sahara, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Hideyo Amamoto
Rating64%
The movie begins in Tokyo, where a man travels to visit a professor who is being held in the psychiatric ward of a hospital. He tells the man that what happened to him sounded crazy but that he in fact was not insane.
Producer
Sayonara Jupiter (1984)
, 2h10Directed by Sakyo Komatsu, Kōji Hashimoto
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Space opera
Actors Akihiko Hirata, Tomokazu Miura, Masumi Okada, Andrew Hughes, Hisaya Morishige, Miyuki Ono
Roles Executive Producer
Rating43%
It's the 22nd Century (2125 AD), and mankind's population has exponentially expanded beyond Earth's handling. Therefore, humans now live throughout the Solar System and the total population has gone well over 18 billion. As a result, there's a severe energy crisis for planets further out from the sun and plans to turn Jupiter into a second sun have been set into motion. However, markings are found on Mars that indicates that alien life lives in Jupiter and the J.S. Project (Jupiter Solarization Project) is put on hold.