I¡¯m sure you¡¯ve heard this one before: 2020 feels like a disaster movie.
While disaster films like ¡°Contagion¡± have been trending recently, ¡°Japan Sinks: 2020,¡± a new Netflix anime series, offers a crisis in the very year we¡¯re living through ¡ª though in the series, helmed by director Masaaki Yuasa (¡°Ride Your Wave¡±) and animation studio Science Saru, the calamity isn¡¯t a pandemic, but the literal sinking of Japan into the sea following a series of massive earthquakes.
The series, which hits Netflix July 9, may sound familiar. It¡¯s based on the Sakyo Komatsu-penned 1973 novel ¡°Japan Sinks,¡± which has previously been adapted into a TV series, manga and two separate films in 1973 and 2006. So why take another crack at ¡°Japan Sinks¡± now?
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