Virus

After a chemical leak at the Hope Centre in Papua New Guinea (an organization devoted to feeding underdeveloped countries) turns its staff into flesh-eating zombies, a four-man commando squad led by Mike London are sent to investigate. They run into a TV news crew led by celebrity reporter Lia, who are after the same story, but when they discover that the entire country has been overrun by zombies, what are the chances of them getting the message across? Unlike most zombie films, this actually tries to make a serious point - that if we don t feed the Third World, they ll come and feed on us! Written by Michael Brooke Virus is a 1980 Japanese English-language Horror Sci-Fi film featuring Masao Kusakari, Sonny Chiba, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Olivia Hussey, Glenn Ford and Antonio Spinnato. The movie is inspired from Fukkatsu no hi by Sakyo Komatsu. Virus was Produced by Haruki Kadokawa. The movie is directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Toho acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Virus was released on 17th November 1980 in English,Japanese,French and German languages and takes a screen time of 156 minutes. Virus was made on a budget of ¥2 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Koji Takada, Gregory Knapp and Kinji Fukasaku. Cinematography was done by Daisaku Kimura and editing by Akira Suzuki. The music was composed by Kentar Haneda.
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