For my article “Disaster Narratives by Design: Is Japan Different?” I studied 38 English-language disaster movies from 1978 to 2018 and a further 22 Japanese-language disaster movies. Since the article was published, I have seen a few more disaster movies. All of these I have written separate blog posts about. What I haven’t done until now on this site is to rank them. This is what this post is. All of this comes with the caveat that I am by no means suggesting that my score is in anyway correct – but if you have similar tastes to me, it may provide some indication of what films to watch (or avoid). For comparison, most things I watch tend to get ratings of 6, 7, or 8. Also be aware that I sometimes change scores for things on IMDb as my tastes change.
See also my book Dealing With Disaster in Japan: Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash and my post Narratives on the World’s Worst Plane Crash: Flight JL123 in Print and on Screen (note that these were written prior to the release of some narratives about the crash which are discussed in the IJMED article).
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