Nosutoradamusu no daiyogen (1974) on Netflix
Professor Nishiyama interprets the prophecies of Nostradamus and believes the end of the world is near. He warns of environmental collapse and mutant creatures, but the world ignores him.
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Plot summary
This film looks like someone's nightmare placed on film. It skillfully weaves weird disastrous futuristic events into the lives of a family of protagonists while at other times reducing them to absent observers of a world gone wild. The film has all the peculiar logic in a manner that makes sense within the dream, but has no narrative logic. The only real story to this film is that Professor Nishiyama believes in the prophecies of Nostradamus, both describing and witnessing future events.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Nosutoradamusu no daiyogen (1974)
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- In May 1974, while filming a forest fire effect, the miniatures ignited and burned out of control, destroying Toho's Studio 7 in Kinuta, Setagaya-Ku; no one was injured.
- A protest group complained to the ratings board Eirin about the New Guinea sequence and the scene with two mutants; Toho apologized, briefly pulled the film, then re-issued it in December 1974 with 105 seconds cut.
- Toho pulled the uncut version from circulation after a 1980 television broadcast and shelved planned 1986 VHS and Laserdisc releases, so the film has never had an official home video release in Japan, though bootleg copies circulate.
- Some effects, including nuclear attack and earthquake scenes, were re-used from Japan Sinks and The Last War, while cedar-covered mountains turning brown from ultraviolet radiation were made by spraying diluted sulfuric acid on part of a real forest.
