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5.3

Pandemic

DramaSci-FiThriller

Duration

2h 18m

Release

17 Jan 2009

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

Overview

ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before. His symptoms include high fever, convulsions, vomiting of blood and multiple organ failure. Could this be a new form of influenza or is it some other variety of virus? As the situation worsens and more cases begin arriving, a medical officer from the World Health Organization named Eiko Kobayashi is dispatched to the area. At the rate the virus is spreading, the entire city’s transportation system and infrastructure would be brought to a halt within 3 months. Within 6 months it could spread to tens of millions of people--reaching a death toll far worse than any war.

Plot

Tsuyoshi Matsuoka, a doctor at a Tokyo hospital, misdiagnoses a patient's disease as a common cold. But after the patient's sudden death, he realizes that it's very serious disease, which can make a population extinct, so he strug...

Cast

Satoshi TsumabukiRei DanRyôko Kuninaka

Ratings

Internet Movie Database: 5.3/10

Details

Director

Takahisa Zeze

Writers

Takahisa ZezeTakashi HiranoAtsuyuki Shimoda

Revenue

$20,712,567
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