Japan Synopsis
“In the year 2050, the battle to save the earth will be fought on the sun.”
A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial Intelligence and a Japanese pilot at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else.
The 1989–1991 Japan Window
114 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Solar Crisis sits at position #109.
The 1990s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 1990s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Solar Crisis premiered. 447 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #4,513 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (1st percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -2.4 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Science Fiction productions specifically: #548 of 566 (top 97%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Japan, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Production Companies | Trimark Pictures, Gakken, NHK Enterprises, Japan America Picture Company |
| Runtime | 1h 52m |
| Release Date | July 14, 1990 |
| IMDb | tt0100649 |