Prophecies of Nostradamus

Movie Information:

  • Release Date: August 3, 1974
  • Production Company: Toho
  • Distribution Company: Toho
  • Original Runtime: 114 minutes
  • Atlernate Titles:
    • Japanese: ノストラダムスの大予言: Catastrophe 1999
    • Hepburn: Nosutoradamusu no Daiyogen: Catastrophe 1999
    • Literal Translation: The Great Prophecies of Noastradamus: Catastrophe 1999
    • U.S. Title: The Last Days of Planet Earth

Cast

Tetsuro Tanba as Dr. Ryogen Nishiyama/Genkei Nishiyama/Gengaku Nishiyama
Toshio Kurosawa as Akira Nakagawa
Yoko Tsukasa as Nobuo Nishiyama
Kaoru Yumi as Mariko Nishiyama
Kaori Taniguchi as Orin
Yoshiro Aoki as Military Police
Masaru Ryuzaki as Oone
Katsuhiko Sasaki as Yoshihama
Shosei Muto as Ihara
Jun Hamamura as Kida
Kumeko Otowa as Mrs. Kida
Tomoe Mari as Kida's daughter
Tappei Shimokawa as Captain of Self Defense Force
Akihiko Hirata as Botanist
Hiroshi Koizumi as Zoologist
So Yamamura as Prime Minister
Mizuho Suzuki as Director of Environmental Agency
Taketoshi Naito as Chief Cabinet Secretary
Sayoko Kato as Bus Girl
Mikizo Hirata as Sanji Nakagawa
Tatsuo Nakamura as Katsuko Nakagawa
Takashi Shimura as Hospital Director
Masahiko Tanimura as Tayama
Kazuko Inano as Hamako
Kazuo Kato as Scholar
George F. Flymm as US Representative
Willie Dorsey as African Representative
Franz Gruber as Dr. Wilson
Tony Cetera as Research Scientist
Rolf Jesser as Research Scientist #2
Osman Yusuf as Research Scientist #3
Isamu Sugii as Soft-Bodied Human
Nobuyuki Nakano as Soft-Bodied Human #2
Shunsuke Kariya as Leader of Rioters
Goro Naya as TV Newscaster
Kyoko Kishida as Prophetess, voice
Shinji Nakai as Narrator, voice

Crew

Producers: Tomoyuki Tanaka, Osamu Tanaka
Director: Toshio Masuda
Special Effects Director: Teruyoshi Nakano
Screenplay: Yoshimitsu Banno, Toshio Masuda, Toshio Yasumi (script The Last War), Ben Goto (book Great Prophecies of Nostradamus)
Second Unit Director: Yoshimitsu Banno
Cinematographers: Rokuro Nishigaki, Kaoru Washio
Music: Isao Tomita
Editor: Nobuo Ogawa
Assistant Director: Fumisake Okada
Art Director: Yoshiro Muraki
Lighting: Shinji Kojima
Sound Recording: Kanae Masuo
Production Manager: Hisayuki Murakami
Assistant SFX Director: Koichi Kawakita
SFX Cinematography: Mototaka Tomioka, Takeshi Yamamoto
SFX Art Director: Yasuyuki Inoue
SFX Lighting: Masakuni Morimoto
SFX Unit Production Manager: Keisuke Shinoda
VFX Optical Photography: Takeshi Miyanishi
VFX Opticals: Yoshio Ishii
Monster Design (Soft-Bodied Humans): Toru Narita
Stunts: Chihiro Mitsuishi
Choreography (Dance): Kiyohiko Kawanishi
Still Photographer: Yoshinori Ishitsuki
SFX Still Photographer: Kazukiyo Tanaka

Alternate Versions

International

United States

Gallery

Prophecies of Nostradamus

  • Release Date: Circa 1974
  • Runtime: 88:40 minutes

Dub Cast

Matthew Oram as Dr. Nishiyama
Barry Haigh as Akira Nakagawa, Newscaster
Esma Wilson as Mariko Nishiyama
Michael Ross

Iterations

    • Notes:
      • Despite the film's controversial reception in its homeland, an export English version was indeed prepared.
      • This international version is cut down to about 87 minutes and is missing a lot of character development scenes, including a subplot where Nishiyama's elderly assistant Kida's daughter has a deformed baby. The prologue explaining the Nishiyama family's historical interest in Nostradamus is also cut completely as is the epilogue with the Prime Minister's speech.
      • Despite the cuts, all of the film's most lurid footage is left intact including the footage trimmed in the Japanese rerelease. The film did get a limited theatrical release in Japanese-American theaters but it's unknown if it played dubbed or subtitled or which version was shown.
      • The full international English version was available on a Danish PAL VHS.