Sakyo Komatsu

Nascimento : 1931-01-28, Osaka, Japan

Morte : 2011-07-26

História

Sakyo Komatsu (小松 左京 Komatsu Sakyō, January 28, 1931 – July 26, 2011) was a Japanese science fiction writer and screenwriter. He was one of the most well known and highly regarded science fiction writers in Japan.

Filmes

Japan Sinks 2020 Theatrical Edition - Shizumanuki Bow -
Novel
The Mutou family leads a peaceful life: Kouichirou works at a construction site and his wife Mari is returning from an overseas trip. Their daughter Ayumu has just finished her track practice while their son Gou is playing video games at home. However, life as they know it is flipped upside down when a calamitous earthquake strikes the entire Japanese archipelago—obliterating the face of the country in an instant. With society crumbling around them and their nation gradually sinking into the ocean, the Mutou family must band together to survive the catastrophe. Treading the near-apocalyptic setting, they struggle not only to stay alive, but also to learn the difficulty of coping with loss.
Japan Sinks
Novel
In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disasters follow, politicians plead with other countries to take refugees, while scientists struggle to save Japan itself.
Tokyo Blackout
Novel
Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electromagnetic cloud for an unknown reason and is totally blocked and isolated from other parts of the world. The temperature inside the cloud is slowly increasing. The Soviet Pacific fleet is getting closer. The U.S. is forcing Japan to form a new government. Scientists and research workers outside Tokyo have to race against time to find out how to get through the cloud in order to rescue the 12,000,000+ lives in Tokyo and the fate of the country.
Time of the Apes
Original Story
A female scientist and two children are accidentally transported into a future dominated by primates.
Sayonara Jupiter
Screenplay
In the 22nd century, scientists from an energy-depleted Earth research new fuel sources in the far corners of the solar system, where they discover an ancient alien race from Jupiter as well as the emergence of an apocalyptically dangerous black hole. Koji Hashimoto's 1983 sci-fi adventure was conceived as a Japanese competitor to the upcoming sequel to Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001, titled 2010, and often mirrors the sequel's plot.
Sayonara Jupiter
Novel
In the 22nd century, scientists from an energy-depleted Earth research new fuel sources in the far corners of the solar system, where they discover an ancient alien race from Jupiter as well as the emergence of an apocalyptically dangerous black hole. Koji Hashimoto's 1983 sci-fi adventure was conceived as a Japanese competitor to the upcoming sequel to Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001, titled 2010, and often mirrors the sequel's plot.
Sayonara Jupiter
Director
In the 22nd century, scientists from an energy-depleted Earth research new fuel sources in the far corners of the solar system, where they discover an ancient alien race from Jupiter as well as the emergence of an apocalyptically dangerous black hole. Koji Hashimoto's 1983 sci-fi adventure was conceived as a Japanese competitor to the upcoming sequel to Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001, titled 2010, and often mirrors the sequel's plot.
Virus
Novel
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
Espy - O Poder da Mente
Novel
O International Psychic Power Group é uma organização secreta financiada pelas Nações Unidas. Composto por super humanos clarividentes sob o disfarce do Centro Internacional de Pesquisa em Poluição, eles travam uma guerra privada contra inimigos que ameaçam a paz mundial e a aniquilação total da raça humana. Com a hostilidade entre o Oriente e o Ocidente atingindo um ponto de ebulição, quatro delegados da Europa Oriental são assassinados a bordo do expresso internacional Milão-Genebra no caminho para as Nações Unidas para o Comitê de Mediação de Disputas Internacionais. O primeiro-ministro baltoniano é o próximo a ser alvo de execução. Um implacável assassino psíquico chamado Goro caça os salvadores psicocinéticos, marcados para a morte por um grupo anti-ESPY liderado pelo Ulrov insidioso e super-humano que planeja destruir a humanidade iniciando a Terceira Guerra Mundial.
Submersion of Japan
Novel
A team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands of Japan, after suffering from massive volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, will be pulled into the ocean, killing millions.
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