As we all know, Japan is located in the Pacific Ring of Volcanic Seismic Belt and is an earthquake-prone country.
In Japan, there are many literary and artistic works on earthquake themes, the most famous of which is Komatsu Sakyo's novel "The Sinking of Japan" published in 1973.
A year after the novel was published, TBS was remade into a TV series, and "The Sinking of Japan" has been made into a tv series several times for decades.
Nearly half a century after the first edition, TBS TV once again brought the novel to the screen, which is the fifth remake of "The Sinking of Japan".
This very topical Japanese drama has invited many well-known actors.
These include Oguri in Godzilla vs. King Kong, Kenichi Matsuyama in Norwegian Forest, Andrakami Watanabe in Galileo Galileo: The True Summer Equation, and so on.
As a commemorative drama for the 60th anniversary of the founding of TBS and the signature "Japan 9", "Japan Sinks: The Man of Hope" has a huge shooting cost to support to reflect the shocking disaster scene.
"Sunken Japan: Man of Hope" also started quite well, ranking first on the Twitter hit list on the day of broadcasting.
The first episode reached 15.8% in ratings, second only to "Heaven and Hell" (16.8%) at the beginning of the year, and it was the second highest rating of this year's Japanese drama!
The Sinking of Japan: A Man of Hope
Starring: Shun Oguri / An / Kenichi Matsuyama / Toru Nakamura / Eiji Ongyu / Teruyuki Kagawa / Hayabusa Kunimura / Tsutomu Takamasu / Anna Nakamura / Manabu Hamada / Aokano Kawai / Shinji Rokkaku / Monto Yamagishi / Ryosuke Takei / Yurako Takano / Jun Shibuki / Miko Higa / Miko Kasuzaki / Tetsuta Sugimoto / Morio Koba / Tsukasa Ishizaki
The biggest highlight of the first episode is that the careerist official Tenkai changes his mind to overthrow Dr. Tasho's theory of the sinking of Kanto.
Set in 2023, when the world environment is deteriorating, Japanese Prime Minister Eiichi Higashiyama (Played by Hiroshi Nakamura) pledged at an international conference that he would contribute to global environmental protection.
To this end, he wanted to build this system called "COMS" on the seabed, indicating that he wanted to make Japan an environmentally advanced country.
To this end, the Prime Minister convened the "Japan Future Promotion Conference" to convene the "COMS" implementation.
The protagonist, Tenkai Ari, played by Oguri, is an official of the Ministry of the Environment, who attends the meeting as a representative of the Ministry of the Environment.
However, geophysicist Dr. Yusuke Taso (Teruyuki Kagawa) wrote that COMS would cause the Kanto to sink.
Japanese officials feel that this is simply alarmist.
Based on the consideration of economic stability and the next election, without investigation, Dr. Tanso was determined to be a nonsense, so he sent Tenkai to stop the spread of the Kanto sunken theory.
Soon, a small island suddenly sinks, which is exactly what Dr. Taso expected!
As a politician, Tenkai wants to force the policy and hope to remove the Kanto sunken theory of Dr. Tasho, who has become an obstacle.
But Tianhai also vaguely felt that something was wrong with the seabed from his own diving experience.
After the real harbinger of the sinking of the Kanto, he gave up his selfish desires in the hope of truly taking charge of Japan's future.
Teruyuki Kagawa, who is beloved for the character of Owada in the popular Japanese drama "Naoki Hanzawa", has become a topic of discussion with his unique presence as Dr. Tasho, who plays him in the play.
At the end of the first episode, "Sun's Island" sinks, Dr. Tasho, played by Teruzo Kagawa, speaks with superb acting skills and through a trembling voice:
"The sinking of that island is what I am afraid of, indicating the precursor to the sinking of the Kanto", suddenly pulls up the entire plot, so that you unconsciously blend into the tense atmosphere of "Kanto sinking"!
The second episode will quickly unfold the plot, Professor Tanso proposed that Japan would completely sink within a year, and a major earthquake made some people realize the seriousness of the situation, and many people chose to take refuge overseas.
But there are also some people who do not think That Japan will sink, and the two sides are hotly debated about Japan's future.
How will the plot unfold? What will this latest edition of "The Sinking of Japan: A Man of Hope" leave for people?
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