Tremendous production with 2.45 billion yen investment and Antarctic location. Digitally restored after 36 years to mark Kadokawa Pictures' 40th anniversary, under the supervision of cinematographer Daisaku Kimura.

Based on Sakyo Komatsu's SF novel. In 1982, a deadly virus MM-88 is stolen from an East German lab, and the airplane carrying the virus crashes in the Alps, almost wiping out the mankind except for some survivors in Antarctica. One of them, seismologist Yoshizumi, realizes an even bigger danger is imminent - Eastern United States may be hit by a mega quake, and a nuclear missile may be triggered.