Troubled
by the predicted downfall of the world, reporter Tsutomu
Goto begins investigating a spirit medium experiment
being conducted at the labs of the University of East
Asia. The experiment is aimed towards reaching the long
deceased Nostradamus in hopes of shedding light on his
prophecies for the end of the world. Unfortunately,
the experiment fails to make contact with the French
prophet, but research is interrupted by an ominous UFO
hanging over Japan...
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A sequel
for Prophecies
of Nostradamus was planned by producer Tomoyuki
Tanaka as far back as 1974, the year Toshio Masuda's
film was released in theaters. Literally titled The
Great Prophecies of Nostradamus II: Fear of the Great
Devil and set for a 1975 debut, the proposed
project was to reunite most of the principal staff from
the first, including director Masuda, writer Toshio
Yasumi, special effects director Teruyoshi Nakano and
producer Osamu Tanaka. Writer Masato Ide, who helped
write the screenplays for several Akira
Kurosawa productions such as Red
Beard (1965) and Ran
(1985), was also attached to the project.
Sadly, not much is known of the plot, beyond the spirit
experiments, the UFO and the reporter role, whose character
was to be named after author Tsutomu Goto who wrote
the novel the first film was based on. Whether the project
had any continuity with its predecessor, though, is
unknown.
Not surprisingly, the project never saw the light of
day, which could most likely be credited to the controversy
that amounted around Prophecies
of Nostradamus that eventually led to a self
imposed ban on the 1974 film and most likely sealed
the fate of this sequel.
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