The Last War (1961 film)

Infobox Film
name = The Last War


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director = Shuei Matsubayashi
producer = Tomoyuki Tanaka
writer = Takeshi Kimura
Toshio Yasumi
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starring = Frankie Sakai
Akira Takarada
Yuriko Hoshi
Nobuko Otowa
Yumi Shirakawa
music = Ikuma Dan
cinematography = Rokuro Nishigaki
editing = Koichi Iwashita
distributor = Toho
released = flagicon|Japan August 10, 1961
flagicon|USA January 8, 1967
runtime = 110 min.
79 min. (USA)
country = JPN
language = Japanese
English
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imdb_id = 0055428

"The Last War", known in Japan as nihongo|"Sekai Daisen'sō"|世界大戦争|lit. "Great World War", is a tokusatsu film produced and released by Toho Studios in 1961. Its special effects were created by Eiji Tsuburaya who is also known for working on Godzilla and Ultraman.

Toshio Yasumi's script for the film was reused for "Prophecies of Nostradamus", which also included re-edits much of the film's special effects, in addition to its family melodrama center.

Plot

This movie covers the day to day goings on of several people in a family that is helplessly caught up in the drama of heightening Cold War tensions between two nuclear-armed superpowers, the Federation and the Alliance (fictitious stand-ins for the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.) Addressing the everyday concerns and everyday existence of people who are about to be violently parted with their existence, this film is a sobering one to watch. It depicts major landmarks the world over meeting with nuclear devastation, with the conclusion consisting of a written warning to mankind never to let this happen.

imilar films

*The War Game
*Threads
*The Day After

External links

*imdb title|id=0055428
* Bogue, Michael. (2002). [http://www.americankaiju.kaijuphile.com/articles/thelastwar.shtml "The Last War"]
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