Nihon Chinbotsu ~ Kibou no Hito*NEW*
Date: From 9.00 p.m., Sundays, October 2021
Station: TBS
Genre: Sci-fi
Original Work: Nihon Chinbotsu by Komatsu Sakyo
Scriptwriter: Hashimoto Hiroshi (Legal V, Shukatsu Kazoku, Risk no Kamisama)
Director: –
Cast: Oguri Shun, Matsuyama Kenichi, Anne, Nakamura Toru, Kagawa Teruyuki
Synopsis: It is the year 2023 in Tokyo. The young prime minister Higashiyama Eiichi (Nakamura Toru) makes a further push for COMS at an international conference on the environment. COMS liquifies pollutants and collects it in the gaps in the layers of the seabed. In addition, he sets up a council for the promotion of Japan’s future which brings together outstanding young bureaucrats from various ministries and agencies to look ahead to the country’s future. Amami Keishi (Oguri Shun) from the Ministry of the Environment and Tokiwa Koichi (Matsuyama Kenichi) from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry are selected to be members of this council. Meanwhile, Tadokoro Yusuke (Kagawa Teruyuki), a former Tokyo University professor and maverick in Japan’s geophysics community, publishes an article in a weekly magazine to warn about the possibility that the Kanto region will sink. As a result of this article, several groups carry out demonstrations. Amami meets Tadokoro in a bid to resolve the situation. However, Tadokoro refuses to listen to him. He instead makes an ominous prediction that in the near future, the islands off Izu Peninsula will sink and that will be a precursor to the sinking of the Kanto region. Around the same time, Amami is confronted by Shiina Minori (Anne), a journalist from a weekly magazine called Sunday Maichou, about groundless allegations of collusion between D Plans, a company in the environmental business, and the Ministry of the Environment. Despite the tinge of anxiety that he feels, Amami goes out scuba diving with Tokiwa. However, he encounters a shocking incident … …
Website: www.tbs.co.jp/nihon_chinbotsu_tbs
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