Tokyo Magnitude 8.0: The Movie
MovieTitle | 東京マグニチュード8.0 劇場版 |
User score | 8.2 |
Release date | Nov 17, 2010 |
Genre | Animation |
Director | Masaki Tachibana |
Production country | Japan |
Production companies | KADOKAWA |
Run time | 95 min. |
An apocalyptic look at the possibility of an earthquake of magnitude 7 or greater striking the Tokyo area. Mirai, a middle school freshman girl who goes to Tokyo's artificial Odaiba Island for a robot exhibition with her brother Yutaka at the start of summer vacation. A powerful tremor emanates from an ocean trench, the famed Tokyo Tower and Rainbow Bridge crumble and fall, and the landscape of Tokyo changes in an instant. With the help of a motorcycle delivery woman named Mari who they meet on Odaiba, Mirai and Yutaka strive to head back to their Setagaya home in western Tokyo.