It’s the end of the 20th century and the world is in all sorts of environmental and geopolitical turmoil. Environmentalist Dr. Ryogen Nishiyama has become convinced, with the prophecies of French scholar Nostradamus as his guide, that the world may be coming to an end. Nishiyama desperately tries to warn Japan’s politicians that ecological disaster is swiftly approaching, but no one listens. Soon disasters begin to take place across both Japan and the world. Children develop strange abilities after drinking water from a zinc mine. As climate change worsens, snow falls on Egypt, drought plagues Africa and flooding swamps the Midwestern US, ruining its crop belt. Meanwhile, an expedition sent to New Guinea to investigate some strange natural phenomena after a nuclear test in the area has gone missing. Nishiyama along with his daughter’s fiancée Akira Nakagawa go to New Guinea in search of the missing party and what they find is truly horrific. Later, SST jet disasters split open the ozone layer and because of worldwide food shortages Japan’s government is forced to put its citizens on a rationed diet, which causes violent rioting and looting to break out while young people commit suicide in large numbers. Nishiyama goes before the Japanese parliament to warn them on the disasters that soon befall both Japan and the world. But will they listen to him this time? In 1974, Toho Films released the film "Nosutoradamusu no daiyogen", known internationally as Prophecies of Nostradamus, The Last Days of Planet Earth, and Catastrophe: 1999. Despite it's box-office success, the film had a tumultuous public life due to the controversial nature of various sequences, notably the climax which depicted the mutated survivors of a nuclear war. Additionally the New Guinea sequence also drew criticism in Japan for its depiction of radiation sickness. Hibakusha advocates (Hibakusha meaning "person affected by a bomb" or "person affected by exposure [to radioactivity]," the term used to describe the Japanese who survived the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,) decried the film for its insensitive handling of the paranoia and stigma around radiation sickness, leading Toho to impose a self-ban on the film. Because of this, it has never been officially released in full to the home video market, with the longest VHS version running 88 minutes as opposed to the 114 of the original. However, due to the efforts of various fans and film preservationists, more complete versions have been able to find there way onto the internet. The copy shown here is allegedly sourced from the elusive 2012 fan bootleg, which to this point seems to be the most complete and highest quality version. Further reading: https://crypt.mosura.dk/nostradamus/about/ CAST: Tetsuro Tanba ... Dr. Ryogen Nishiyama/Genkei Nishiyama/Gengaku Nishiyama Toshio Kurosawa ... Akira Nakagawa Yoko Tsukasa ... Nobuo Nishiyama Kaoru Yumi ... Mariko Nishiyama Kaori Taniguchi ... Orin Yoshiro Aoki ... Military Police Masaru Ryuzaki ... Oone Katsuhiko Sasaki ... Yoshihama Shosei Muto ... Ihara Jun Hamamura ... Kida Kumeko Otowa ... Mrs. Kida Tomoe Mari ... Kida’s daughter Tappei Shimokawa ... Captain of Self Defense Force Akihiko Hirata ... Botanist Hiroshi Koizumi ... Zoologist So Yamamura ... Prime Minister Mizuho Suzuki ... Director of Environmental Agency Taketoshi Naito ... Chief Cabinet Secretary Sayoko Kato ... Bus Girl Mikizo Hirata ... Sanji Nakagawa Tatsuo Nakamura ... Katsuko Nakagawa Takashi Shimura ... Hospital Director Masahiko Tanimura ... Tayama Kazuko Inano ... Hamako Kazuo Kato ... Scholar George F. Flymm ... US Representative Willie Dorsey ... African Representative Franz Gruber ... Dr. Wilson Tony Cetera ... Research Scientist Rolf Jesser ... Research Scientist #2 Osman Yusuf ... Research Scientist #3 Isamu Sugii ... Soft-Bodied Human Nobuyuki Nakano ... Soft-Bodied Human #2 Shunsuke Kariya ... Leader of Rioters Goro Naya ... TV Newscaster Kyoko Kishida ... Prophetess, voice Shinji Nakai ... Narrator, voice CREW: Producers: Tomoyuki Tanaka, Osamu Tanaka Director: Toshio Masuda Special Effects Director: Teruyoshi Nakano Screenplay: Yoshimitsu Banno, Toshio Masuda, Toshio Yasumi, and Ben Goto 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 SFX [ Assistant Director: Koichi Kawakita Cinematography: Mototaka Tomioka, Takeshi Yamamoto Art Director: Yasuyuki Inoue Lighting: Masakuni Morimoto Unit Production Manager: Keisuke Shinoda Optical Photography: Takeshi Miyanishi Still Photographer: Kazukiyo Tanaka ] VFX Opticals: Yoshio Ishii Monster Design (Soft-Bodied Humans): Toru Narita Stunts: Chihiro Mitsuishi Choreography (Dance): Kiyohiko Kawanishi Still Photographer: Yoshinori Ishitsuki