Oct 09, 2019 07:00:00

The novel `` Japan Sinking '' depicting an unprecedented natural disaster is first animated as `` Japan Sinking 2020 '' by director Masaaki Yuasa





The best-selling novel “Sank Japan” by writer Samatsu Komatsu will be animated for the first time as “Japan Shark 2020” by Director Masaaki Yuasa,

who won the Grand Prix of Annecy International Anime Film Festival Feature Film for the first time in 22 years since Director Isao Takahata. It was.“Japan Sinking” is a novel published in 1973 and is a best seller with a cumulative total of 4.7 million copies. Later, the movie directed by Shiro Moriya, who worked on “Hakkodayama”, became the biggest hit in Japanese film distribution revenue that year, and in 2006, it was re-filmed by director Shingo Higuchi, starring Takeshi Kusanagi.The animation will be in charge of `` Lou no Uta to Dawn '' released in 2017, since director Hayao Miyazaki (1993 `` Red Pig '') and Isao Takahata (1995 `` Heisei Saga Battle Pompoko '') Director Masaaki Yuasa, who won the Crystal Award (Grand Prix) in the feature film section of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.





This work will be produced as a Netflix original animation series. In 2018, Yuasa sent out “DEVILMAN crybaby” as an original Netflix animation, which was highly acclaimed by the original author Go Nagai.









The original was published in 1973 as described above, but in this work the stage was set immediately after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. It is said that 'very ordinary family story' that was not drawn so much in the visualization of 'Japan sinking' so far will be drawn.

