It’s a Kinji Fukasaku end of the world film so I should’ve known, but nothing prepared me for what unfolded.
It feels truly catastrophic, like an accumulation of every single disaster movie created within the boom period of the 1970s come home to roost. The eggs release a gelatinous goo that causes people to explode when they come into physical contact with the substance. 1980 In Review - June American geneticist Dr. Meyer accidentally creates a deadly virus named MM88 which is then developed in secret by General Garland. Sen. Barkley Well worth a read.…All the films from my exploitation lists, bundled into one mega-super-list-to-rule-them-all! After a global pandemic has destroyed most of the world's population, a small band of survivors gather in a scientific base…It’s interesting when American actors like Glenn Ford appear in foreign productions like this, their performances will barely be seen by their usual audience of countrymen outside of home video rentals and the occasional airing on cable.In spite of a few moments where plausibility is stretched and a minor story thread that disappears I still enjoyed this quite a bit.Film en total adéquation en notre période de pandémie de Covid-19.
I still enjoyed the movie, though not to the extent which I had anticipated seeing how this is Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale!!)
Herman Rusk (2 episodes, 1979-1980) George Dzundza. President Richardson
Yoshizumi A disaster movie so epic that it destroys the world *twice*--first with a pandemic that wipes out everyone on the planet except 855 men and eight women on Antarctica, and then with an accidental nuclear holocaust when an earthquake triggers the US launch system--VIRUS was the most expensive Japanese film ever made at the time of its release.
Malheureusement la réalisation et le budget n'est pas à la hauteur du sujet, mais il reste très intéressant.This film accurately hits a lot of political and social events durning a pandemic and a world-wiping virus, but I have to admit I was not invested in the story or characters at all. After a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race.
Cinematographer Virus (1980) Virus is a Japanese movie that goes where more contagion movies should: Antarctica. Admittedly I dozed off a couple of times. Chuck Connors.
Producer BUT I get that this was a movie directed by a man (and based on a book written by a man) in a culture that…Dreadful virus movie that tackles (or is it massages?) Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world. The second half involves some cheesy action sequences and a subversive happy ending in a nihilistic film.
This isn't a movie about solving the crisis or winning, its about surviving even though there's no real reason to anymore other than survival's sake.Steven Soderbergh's CONTAGION seems to be everyone's go-to Coronavirus party movie, especially with Typhoid Gwyneth in the news with her vagina-scented candles, but for those of us in the know, future BATTLE ROYALE director Kinji Fukasaku's 1980 cult classic VIRUS is where it's at. It's going to suck, man.Featuring a mainly American cast, Virus was probably Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku's attempt to make the transition into Hollywood. 'Sorry, we don't need your genetics here.' The film's "double apocalypse" and its roster of international talent assured its hefty price tag.A deadly virus -- engineered for germ warfare -- devastates the world, while 863 men and 8 women hunker down in Antarctica, where the virus cannot reproduce. With Masao Kusakari, Tsunehiko Watase, Isao Natsuyagi, Shin'ichi Chiba. But no it’s Glenn Ford as President (would be deemed a “loser” by you-know-who), seemingly with a foot in the grave at the outset; hey, here’s your basic George Kennedy; and, why not, your more basic Bo Svenson; and wildman military attache for Buck Turgidson, Henry Silva who in one scene resembles a screaming anime dictator.
In fact, you'd think anyone who is a warmongering idiot could maybe just get left out of the human race, take two.
Captain McCloud Capt. which is similar to A/Bangkok/ 79 and has not yet been assigned an official name.
To find it, the team sampled blood banked at the National Institutes of Health from 46 volunteers between 1974 and 1980. This rather cheap-looking B movie was never likely to make his name with a mainstream Western audience though.
It is a Japanese movie with an international cast, including George Kennedy, Glenn Ford, Olivia Hussey, Edward James Olmos, Masao Kusakari, and Chuck Connors, among others.
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
1980 In Review - June American geneticist Dr. Meyer accidentally creates a deadly virus named MM88 which is then developed in secret by General Garland. Nonetheless I’m quite impressed by the result.This is one of the maddest films I’ve ever seen. His good descriptive eye goes side by side with the elegiac quality of the imagery which manages to suggest a sorrowful finite quality that set it apart from similar apocalyptical films. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku. President Richardson.
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Virus (1980) ← Back to main. They found it in two samples.