ED trailer for Shinji Higuchi's SINKING OF JAPAN (NIHON CHINBOTSU), w/ Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Kou Shibas

There's a downloadable enhanced-definition (ED) version of the third trailer for Shinji Higuchi's Sinking of Japan (Nihon chinbotsu) on the website of Apple Computer Inc.. (Note that the trailer can only be viewed with QuickTime 7.) Toho Co. Ltd. (Tôhô K.K.) is scheduled to release the movie theatrically in Japan on July 15th.

The screenplay for Sinking of Japan was written by Masato Katô, based on the science-fiction books Nippon chinbotsu (ue) and Nippon chinbotsu (shita) by Sakyô Komatsu. (Shirô Moritani's 1973 classic Submersion of Japan (Nippon chinbotsu) was likewise based on those books.) The movie's principal cast is as follows (listed order corresponds to website order): Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Kou Shibasaki (a.k.a. Kô Shibasaki), Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Mayuko Fukuda, Hideko Yoshida, Akira Emoto, Jun Kunimura, Kôji Ishizaka, Etsushi Toyokawa, and Mao Daichi.

For more information on Sinking of Japan, see ScreenAnarchy's sixth, fifth, fourth, third, second, and first articles on it.

Sinking of Japan trailer #3 - ED (downloadable 20.9 MB MOV file)
Sinking of Japan trailer #3 (downloadable 16.8 MB MOV file)
Sinking of Japan trailer #2 (downloadable 13.6 MB MOV file)
Sinking of Japan trailer #1 (downloadable 8.4 MB MOV file)

Sinking of Japan 15 sec. TV spot (downloadable 1.7 MB MOV file)
Sinking of Japan 05 sec. TV spot (downloadable 590 KB MOV file)
Sinking of Japan official website
Jason Gray: Report on the world première of Sinking of Japan