Day of Resurrection

Year:

1980

Duration:

156 min | USA:108 min

Genres:

Adventure | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

IMDB rate:

6.4

Director:

Kinji Fukasaku

Awards:

2 wins & 5 nominations

Details

Country: Japan

Release Date: 1980-06-26

Filming Locations: Alaska, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Glenn Ford

Masao Kusakari

Dr. Shûzô Yoshizumi

Tsunehiko Watase

Yasuo Tatsuno

Isao Natsuyagi

Cmdr. Nakanishi (as Isao Natsuki)

Shin'ichi Chiba

Dr. Yamauchi (as Sonny Chiba)

Kensaku Morita

Ryûji Sanazawa

Toshiyuki Nagashima

Akimasa Matsuo

Haruki Kadokawa

Team Member - Showa Station

Chû Takatsuki

Team Member - Showa Station

Takeshige Hatanaka

Team Member - Showa Station

Riki Gonoue

Team Member - Showa Station

Eiji Yuki

Team Member - Showa Station

George Kennedy

Adm. Conway

Bo Svenson

Maj. Carter

Stephanie Faulkner

Sarah Baker

Julie Khaner

Secretary - Palmer Station

Danielle Schneider

Secretary - Palmer Station

Laura Pennington

Secretary - Palmer Station

Diane Lasko

Secretary - Palmer Station

Patricia Rego

Secretary - Palmer Station (as Patto Regô)

Nicholas Campbell

Radio Operator - Palmer Station

Chris Wiggins

Dr. Borodinov

John Evans

Capt. Nevsky

Olivia Hussey

Marit

Joan Beldam

Girl

Edward James Olmos

Capt. Lopez (as Edward J. Olmos)

Cec Linder

Dr. Latour (as Cecil Linder)

Eve Crawford

Dr. Irma Ollich

Jon Granik

Dr. Turowicz

David Hovan

Maj. Giron (as Ara Hovanessian)

Ted Follows

Dr. Baines

John Bayliss

Maj. King

William Ross

Radio Operator 'Ahab' - Mawson Station

Chuck Connors

Capt. McCloud - HMS Nereid

Ken Camroux

Lt. Jones - HMS Nereid

Matt Hawthorne

Navigator - HMS Nereid

Gordon Thompson

Radio Operator - HMS Nereid

John Rutter

Sailor #1 - HMS Nereid

Alf Humphreys

Sailor #2 - HMS Nereid (as Alfred Humphreys)

Michael Tough

Young Sailor - HMS Nereid

Jan Muszynski

Ens. Smirnov - Soviet Submarine T222

Charles Northcote

Sonar Operator - Soviet Submarine T222

Yumi Takigawa

Noriko Asami

Mitsuko Oka

Yoshiko Tatsuno

Yoshitaka Kase

Akira Tatsuno

Ken Ogata

Prof. Tsuchiya

Ichirô Kijima

Dr. Tadokoro

Takashi Noguchi

Intern #1 - Tokyo

Nenji Kobayashi

Intern #2 - Tokyo

Tayori Hinatsu

Nurse - Tokyo

Keiko Itô

Nurse - Tokyo

Tomoko Igarashi

Nurse - Tokyo

Sachiko Sato

Nurse - Tokyo (as Sachiko Satô)

Sanae Nakahara

Young Mother - Tokyo

Yukiko Watanabe

Daughter - Tokyo

Robert Vaughn

Sen. Barkley

Henry Silva

Gen. Garland

Dan Kippy

Secretary of State Reid

Larry Reynolds

Secretary of Defense Morrison

David Gardner

Secretary of Health Watt

William Binney

White House Aide Simmons

George Touliatos

Col. Rankin

Stuart Gillard

Dr. Ed Meyer

Ron Hartmann

Dr. Rogers (as Ron Hartman)

Roger Periard

Orderly #1

Stephen Lockwood

Orderly #2

Charles D. George

Rankin's Driver

Colin Fox

Spy Z

Jefferson Mappin

Big Man

Richard Ayres

Little Man

Dick Grant

Pilot

Tyler Miller

Cossack Boy

Ken Pogue

Dr. Krause

Martin Donlevy

Sentry - East Germany

Jim Bearden

Military Police Officer - East Germany

Wally Bondarenko

Military Policeman - East Germany

Henry Ramer

TV Narrator (voice)

Marcello Krakoff

Toby Anderson (voice)

John Corbett

Alvaro Espinoza (uncredited)

Alberta Watson

Litha (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Haruki Kadokawa originally wanted John Frankenheimer to direct this film.

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Haruki Kadokawa was the heir to a major publishing empire. He entered the film business in the mid-1970s with some high-profile features. This was to be his big breakthrough in the international market. He tried to ensure its success by casting some US stars and doing major international promotion (under the international title "Virus"). However, the film was a major flop. Although it may have had some special showings in the US, it did not receive a general release. It was sold directly to pay-TV in an edited 108-minute version.

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The Chilean Navy gave strong support in filming this movie. The two submarines that appear in some scenes are in fact the same one, the CNS Simpson.

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Goofs

The chamber where the ARS is located is reached by Yoshizumi and Carter simply blowing two doors open with plastique and climbing down an elevator shaft. A chamber containing a doomsday device probably contains more elaborate security features, such as blast doors.

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The ARS (a device that launches many nuclear missiles in retaliation to a strike) is activated by one man pushing a few buttons. Devices that launch nuclear missiles are normally (and believably) portrayed as requiring launch codes, special keys and the authorization of at least two people.

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Upon entering the bunker, Yoshizumi watches in horror on several monitors as nuclear rockets launch all over the world. The footage on many of these monitors feature hand-held camera work. Due to the virus sweeping the world many months earlier, there would be no one alive at that point to be operating these cameras.

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Quotes

President Richardson: [watching the sun set, for what he suspects will be his last time] I wanted my name to be entered into the history books, but I wanted it to be for something meaningful, something lasting. What could I have done that would have made the slightest damn bit of difference... wha... what could I have done?