Virus , literally Day of Resurrection is a 1980 post-apocalyptic science fiction movie directed by Kinji Fukasaku and based on a novel written by Sakyo Komatsu. The movie starred Masao Kusakari, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Chuck Connors, Olivia Hussey, Edward James Olmos, Ken Ogata, Glenn Ford and Sonny Chiba. The film is notable for being the most expensive Japanese film ever made at the time. The movie opens with a British nuclear submarine called the HMS Nereid entering Tokyo Bay in the then-future of December 1983. The ship's crew and Japanese seismologist Yoshizumi sends a... reconnaissance drone to search the city for any survivors, only to find decayed bodies. It also gathers air samples of something called MM88. After the movie credits, the film goes back to the then-future of February 1982, where a shady transfer is happening 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 bacteria it comes in contact with. The scientist wants a sample taken to a colleague in Switzerland, Dr.
more
| Release date: | 1980 |
| Directed by: | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Runtime: | 156 Minutes |
| Producer: | Haruki Kadokawa, Yutaka Okada, Takashi Ôhashi |
| Editor: | Akira Suzuki |
| Music by: | Janis Ian |
| Cinematography: | Daisaku Kimura |
| Screenplay by: | Kinji Fukasaku, Gregory A Knapp, Kôji Takada |
| Adapted from: | Virus |
| Genre: | Science Fiction, Disaster |