The Last Days of Planet Earth (1981)
Science FictionFantasyDramaAction
In 1853, Gentetsu Nishiyama tells his students that the French prophet Nostaradamus foretells great change for Japan, some of his students revolt, calling his words heresy and his wife flees with a book of Nostradamus’s predictions… In the present day, Dr. Nishiyama has to combat increasingly bizarre goings on which seem all to familiar to the prophet's predictions…
Directors:
Riley Jackson, Toshio Masuda, Matthew Oram.
Writers:
Toshio Masuda, Yoshimitsu Banno.
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Jack Ryland as Narrator |
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Riley Jackson as Sportscaster / Crowd Leader |
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Tetsuro Tamba as Dr. Nishiyama |
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Matthew Oram as Dr. Nishiyama (voice) / Botanist (voice) |
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Kaoru Yumi as Mariko Nishiyama |
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Linda Masson as Mariko Nishiyama (voice) |
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Toshio Kurosawa as Akira Nakagawa |
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Barry Haigh as Akira Nakagawa (voice) / Zoologist (voice) |
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Takashi Shimura as Hospital Director |
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Tony Moore as Hospital Director (voice) |
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Akihiko Hirata as Botanist |
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Hiroshi Koizumi as Zoologist |
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Mizuho Suzuki as Director General of Environment Agency |
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Michael Ross as Director General of Environment Agency (voice) |
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Carolyn Ellis Levine as Voice of Nostradamus's Prophecies |
| Sound | Isao Tomita | Music |
| Editing | Nobuo Ogawa | Editor |
| Visual Effects | Teruyoshi Nakano | Visual Effects Director |
| Visual Effects | Koichi Kawakita | Visual Effects Director |
| Directing | Yoshimitsu Banno | Co-Director |
| Production | Henry G. Saperstein | Executive Producer |
| Production | Tomoyuki Tanaka | Executive Producer |
| Production | Osamu Tanaka | Executive Producer |
| Production | Hisayuki Murakami | Production Manager |
| Production | Shizuo Nakajima | Production Assistant |
| Writing | Toshio Masuda | Screenplay |
| Writing | Yoshimitsu Banno | Screenplay |
| Writing | Tsutomu Goto | Novel |
| Writing | Toshio Yasumi | Story |
| Writing | Toshio Yasumi | Original Film Writer |
| Writing | Michel de Nostredame | Novel |
| Camera | Rokurô Nishigaki | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Kaoru Washio | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Kazukiyo Tanaka | Still Photographer |
| Camera | Yoshinori Ishizuki | Still Photographer |
| Art | Yoshirō Muraki | Production Design |
| Writing | Toshio Masuda | Adaptation |
| Writing | Yoshimitsu Banno | Adaptation |
| Directing | Fumisake Okada | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Koji Hashimoto | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Tsunesaburo Nishikawa | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Shindo Yasuda | Third Assistant Director |
| Directing | Shindo Yasuda | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Takao Okawara | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Tadashi Masamori | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Akane Shiratori | Script Supervisor |
| Sound | Riley Jackson | ADR Supervisor |
| Sound | Matthew Oram | ADR Supervisor |
| Writing | Elizabeth Oram | Dialogue |
| Directing | Riley Jackson | Director |
| Directing | Toshio Masuda | Director |
| Directing | Matthew Oram | Director |