JAPAN SINKS: People of Hope (2021)
Grade: A
Format: Series
Genre: Political TV Shows; TV Dramas; Japanese; TV Shows Based on Books
Studio: TBS
Source: novel
Netflix Global Top 10: Did not reach Global Top 10
Set in Tokyo 2023, an eccentric geophysicist warns that the Kanto region will sink into the sea --- setting off a political firestorm between idealistic young bureaucrats at the Ministry of the Environment and Ministry of Economy, a tenacious weekly magazine reporter chasing government corruption, and a Prime Minister trying to manage national panic while secretly relocating Japan's industries abroad. The drama focuses not on the disaster itself but on the human and political machinery behind it --- denial, cover-ups, competing values, and the agonizing calculus of sacrificing the present to s
Cast
- Shun Oguri
- Kenichi Matsuyama
- Anne
- Eiji Wentz
- Anne Nakamura