I remember seeing the International version of "DeathQuake", as released by the good folks at Toho, in a Science class at my High School Jr. year, and boy, it is still stuck on me for that long. It is kinda like Japan's answer to an Irwin Allen film.
It starts out with a seismic wave researcher, whom predicted the next Tokyo/Yokohama earthquake, just like his psychic great-grandfather did in 1923. Hardly anyone believes him, until it is too late. The intensity of the Earthquake (in the int. version, it is said to be magnitude 10!) is probably the most intense of any disaster film. We could only imagine this happening and pray for no earthquake that intense to hit anywhere ever again.
*SPOILER*
Probably the most touching and personal favorite scene is where the researcher and other main characters rescues a little girl from being crushed by flaming debris. How can that not tug your heartstrings?
*END OF SPOILER*
It starts out with a seismic wave researcher, whom predicted the next Tokyo/Yokohama earthquake, just like his psychic great-grandfather did in 1923. Hardly anyone believes him, until it is too late. The intensity of the Earthquake (in the int. version, it is said to be magnitude 10!) is probably the most intense of any disaster film. We could only imagine this happening and pray for no earthquake that intense to hit anywhere ever again.
*SPOILER*
Probably the most touching and personal favorite scene is where the researcher and other main characters rescues a little girl from being crushed by flaming debris. How can that not tug your heartstrings?
*END OF SPOILER*