Sinking of Japan ( 日本沈没 , Nihon Chinbotsu ? , Literally. The Submersion of Japan ) is a disaster movie Japanese directed by Shinji Higuchi released onin Japan. The film is adapted from Sakyo Komatsu’s novel published in 1973 .
This film is a remake of a movie of the same title directed by Shiro Moritani in 1973 , with Lorne Greene , Keiju Kobayashi , Hiroshi Fujioka and Ayumi Ishida .