This basically happened to places affected by calamities. Just like what happened in my city in the Philippines just before Christmas, when the super typhoon hit again. I couldn’t talk to my family for almost 2 weeks and didn’t hear from them. No internet, no electricity no drinking water. Running out of food and roads and house were damaged.
"the family sits next to the river, crying because they did not know Yoshiyuki was bald. uh uhm, mourning Yoshiyukis death." this part literally made me cry laughing ;-;
Because technology is literally *apart* of humanity. Anyone who says this I challenge them to throw their phone in the lake, move to a rural area, and use no modern plumbing, tap water, showers, etc (As they require electricity). You may think “I’d love to do that”, but you’d find yourself trying to survive daily instead of using technology to thrive and make time for other activities.
“Kanji tries to save his father, but the family cry’s at the river as they find his wig in the water, they cry for they did not know he was bald” 😂 lol Adam is the best
@@optimusprimegaming8573 im gonna ask you to stop right there. if you don't you might end up as a test subject of sector 19. and that is a nono if you want to love a long and happy life. or live at all for that matter.
I love how in this movie, Japan is disciplined and there is no chaos despite the outage worldwide. Imagine if this was on a different country, shit's gonna go down yikes.
When this COVID pandemic started, I realized if anything like this would happen, the United States would be the worst place to be in. Most other countries handled it somewhat well.
People should be able to drive their cars though unless the car runs out of gas which makes going to the gas station pretty useless. So the blackout affected the electrical system in their cars? It makes no sense.
@@timothylee2772 its unexplained occurrences is mention its unexplainable even by scientist in the movie. Which means there some form of higher power that makes this happen
Funny how the Japanese still want to go to work rather than worry about the family and survival. American's would just say "yeah, I get to stay home and play my Play Station, oh. . . . wait".
This is actually very realistic and could actually happen. The scariest thing is that it's predicted a big solar flare might even occur during our lifetime. And I'm NOT ready.
I'm not ready either but by choice. Without my meds I am at or may not survive. I also have severe fibromyalgia & arthritis around a fusion. So bad chronic pain. So my plan is just to survive as long I can in the hopes I either keep going. Or that I can help some family with kids to survive. I may not have my own kids or want them. But I'm extremely protective of kids & would love nothing better than to help insure their survival. But it's not hard to get started in prepping & it can be a lot of fun. Plus if you're pantry is prepped & you lose your job or something mundane. You still have plenty of food. But if you're serious. DONT TELL ANYONE YOU'RE A PREPPER & READY FOR THINGS. You'll have everyone from family to friends to neighbors to desperate people after it & help.
Welcome to the world of "Gordon Krantz," in David Brin's book, "The Postman.";) Shall we rebuild the nation, one latter at a time, as "The New Pony Express"?;)
What a spoiler, I literally watch these explaining videos cause its entertaining, and I can't watch the movie for free. So like I'm not wanting any spoilers-
"Kenji tries his best to save his father but only finds his wig in the water the family sits by the river crying because they did not know yoshiyuki was bald" I CANT FREAKING STOP LAUGHING
And the movie actually has something that Sci-fi uses so much. Natural disaster hits, people left to die ot starve, people turn angry. This movie is great. They manage to get so much out of a simple question, what if we hadn’t power for a while. Of course it barelly shows that without the modern structure avaliable, many people will die as we are not accustomed to obtaining basic needs by anything else than money
@@honzasenbauer612 , many more die because nature isn't kind to the old, infirm, young and unprotected, and those dependent on medications and medical equipment.
What’s crazy is right now they are forcing people in China to go without water and without electricity by randomly shutting down their power and their water whenever they feel like it to me this seems less like a movie more like a documentary
I think Japan countryside has a lot of accommodating people that would survived in a situation where electricity is gone or the electrical grid system is knock down by disasters. Those who lived in rural areas that accustomed to farming and living near the forest barely used electricity.
Japan is very different. After the Fukushima disaster and the helicopter was going from town to town to give out supplies, the people only took enough for themself and told the pilot to save more to give to the next town.
That's because it's Japan. They're a much more united country than most of us in the west. Here people will literally stop talking to family members for having a different political view.
I think Japan countryside has a lot of accommodating people that would survived in a situation where electricity is gone or the electrical grid system is knock down by disasters. Those who lived in rural areas that accustomed to farming and living near the forest barely used electricity.
I really loved this movie. It was so absolutely refreshing and amazing to see a film about what is basically a societal collapse that doesn’t revolve around war and chaos. It’s more of a message about how people can still be organized and unified even without electricity!
I'm sorry but most westerner metropolises wouldn't be so organized. I remember how people would complain about how they hadn't been without power for so long when the power went out at my university for 3 hours, seriously people were freaking out. Heck even most new people back in my rural home community don't have generators anymore like wtf.
Wow... a post apocalyptic story where everyone is decent to and trying to help each other survive. I mean there's a little pragmatic selfishness, but no mohawked loin clothed marauders making battle axes out of laptops. Great story!
Omg this is literally true, I'm a person from the Philippines who's included on one of the families that got affected by the super typhoon odette last christmas, it went for about almost 1 month before the electricity came back, no internet (low signal), no drinking water, and we had to take some bucket of water from a well, and most of our neighbors bought gas generators, we had to pay to charge our phones, everything was very expensive lol.
I relate this comment , for me the super typhoon odette is one of the strongest circumstances 😔and I saw it our house was destroy and so many houses destroyed but that time we are roofless but we have hopes to build and fighting 😌
@@shenheart2041 same, even if there was no power, and we got to get a water from the community well, we still respect each other as a human being and laugh together with our family and friends, the typhoon can't ruin our positive vibes ✨ ,,, but condolence for the people with a loss relative...
@@panhandlesomen Your knowledge of geopolitical issues relevant to the 1800's is both informative and fascinating. Though it is often an extremely slow change and border issues are mostly defined by dried riverbeds and drought. I subscribe to your theory that this large and lush river bed traveled several miles over the course of a few weeks to stop our protagonists. That being said the penultimate bruh moment surely goes to the map makers who's centuries old profession was instantly undermined when they forgot to account that rivers have a feeding range of 40 square miles, just like the mighty tyrannosaurus rex did.
This movie is utterly terrifying as solar flares are able to get strong enough to seriously disrupt a lot of our modern technology and electricity grids. Don't know if they'd be down for a full +2 years but I have heard that taking out electricity for a huge region makes bringing it back extremely challenging as supply has to be stepped up along with demand simultaneously or the system trips and you have to start over.
If a solar flare did happen, All power lines will catch fire. People will need to put up new power lines to bring back the power and because most electrical companies will only have minimal extra materials, it would be next to impossible to bring back the power. All electrical chips would also be fried because of the solar flare
This is a good film for preppers: Have bicycles around. Get a portable gas cooker Stock up on water, meds and food Head to countryside Buy an updated map Carry cash Stock up on candles
Not only cash, but silver, coffee and tobacco as well. Some people won't be interested in money, especially as time passes, but they will be interested in coffee and tobacco. Also also keep an extra alternator and batteries in a faraday cage. You can buy them or look up how to make them online for cheaper or bigger for the same amount of money.
This literally gave me PTSD, reminds me of the week with no electricity in Texas, Snow-mageddon 2021 was no joke, I'm from Illinois, and I had never questioned if I'd die frozen until that week, shit got real, real quick, it's funny how without electronics, (phone networks were also horrible) all we could do was huddle around the fire place, and talk. (One of the lucky Texans with one, and were able to find some wood). Also, we were able to save some water for that we needed to boil, since the electricity had gone because of "rolling blackouts", the water does indeed go next, whether it's because of the water being tainted, or the water getting cut off. This was also right after Covid emptying out the stores, so it just felt like an non-stop months long emergency...
@@miat1329 thank you! I’m literally looking for a battery back up for my wifi, I’m not trying to lose it again ha, probably should get on the hunt for a generator in general. 😁
That sucked so bad. We fortunately didn’t lose electricity, we were scared every day that that would be the day it went out but water was a mess and getting supplies was a problem. I’ve lived here forever and through several hurricanes. We’re used to that. The freeze was a whole different monster for Texas for sure. Glad you faired okay.
As someone who's experienced many long-term power outages in Japan, here are some tips. Last major one I've experienced being in Late 2019 which was a 6-day power outage because of a 13-day typhoon (though I have experienced much longer -- despite being a teenager), I didn't run out of water (and food) and wasn't bored. Tip 1: Always have enough AAA (tan-4) and AA (tan-3) batteries (I always make sure I have at least 25 of each) Tip 2: Learn to charge your phones using fruits if needed, since fruits are going to rot if you don't use it all. Tip 3: Learn to charge your phones by hand (it's doable, laptops may be much harder even if you use bicycles to charge them.) Tip 4: Have a radio, it does not require too much electricity (unlike TVs, smartphones or devices), it only needs a sound signal. Tip 5: Stock your bathtub filled with fresh water. I always have it full and change it every 5 days or so. Tip 6: Buy large containers of water just in case. Tip 7: Have plenty of board games and toys to play. Tip 8: KEEP YOUR BIRTHDAY CANDLES!!! You will need these for light. Tip 9: Go outside and don't be on your screen all day, as you will be bored during power outages Tip 10: 3:14 Use the water in the bathtub to wash the toilet if needed (I may have not included a few that may be essential that I have forgotten) I honestly think this movie is over-exaggerated and unrealistic... (because duh, it's a movie and they need to add drama to not make the audience bored)
It also skips over just how many people would have starved to death or been killed by other for their food. Not to mention the people that would have killed themselves because they couldn't deal with the situation.
Tbh it's not exaggerating, if anything they tone this down. No communication from central authority and people desperate for food will likely turn us into animal Remember there is no way a major city with a lot of population can sustain themselves, they have to import food from rural area. This will spell chaos, Especially the outage last more than a year
Other than batteries, I also have 2 portable solar panels which each one can charge a 10000mah power bank for 5 hours of sunlight. Also I have a crank radio and a crank powered phone charger. 3 flashlights are rechargeable by usb and I have 4 usb powered bright lightbulbs I can connect to my power bank or phone.
What you are not considering is that 1. this is Tokyo (don't know where you are from in Japan ^^) and 2. They didn't consider the outage to be possibly a long one so they didn't apply all the "save the water" tips... As for food, we've seen with covid that shelves can be emptied quite fast. I think that here the issue is that some people have food in their flat but since they left to get water they have no use of it... That being said, I still agree that of course there are some exaggerations (especially on thinking that no one would have candles at hand in a country where power outage are frequent. I used to live in France countryside and we always had flashlights & candles to light us during our power outage. I now live in a big city and still have a huge box filled with enough candles to light my kitchen for days...😅)
I'm just going to say we Japanese are conservative of our food. We don't buy that much from the shelves. The only thing I've seen run out during COVID was hand sanitizers, baby wipes, and toilet paper. But nothing on food \(^-^)/, not even in cities. If it did, I would've at least heard it on the news, so I highly doubt it happened too many times. I've lived in many places across Japan (yes, including Tokyo). Did you know a majority of the Greater Tokyo Metropolitan Area (which we Japanese call Kanto/Kantou depending on how you want to spell it) is actually rural?
I don't know why but when it comes to something like this i would go full stone age style mode where i should hunt and farm and look for shelter. and i don't know how that would go to know everything about survival than the internet. i think it's just my instincts kicking in if there was no electricity or anything that is in a modern age. I would always go look for ways to help myself finding ways to survive without using electricity and everything i see it would go to my brain and process on which,what should i use for survival and thinking about i could do with things with the item's. (And If you are going tell me i should go to a puzzle room which would kill me and use everything inside i can't do anything like that so i suggest that i wouldn't want to be asked to give me solutions about how to solve a puzzle that could kill you. but I'm okay with normal puzzle room which you can which think about everything to find ways
This is most possibly the scariest and most probable horror movie... Imagine all the dead people in the hospitals due to their equipment failing. And the planes currently in flight crashing down out of nowhere, prisons that filled with people starved to death, cruise ships stuck in the middle of the sea. getting stuck in an elevator without anyone to know and many more personal horror movie experiences. If that would have happened in the Philippines instead of Japan then the loose morals would take over and it would be a survival of the fittest within the first few weeks or even months. Just think of Tondo taking over the surrounding cities... What do you think would happen to your country if it was hit by this.. or even just your city....
@@coconut4996 lol there’s a lot of things you can do. Things will just go back to the old days. No technology, just work. Most people would leave cities for countrisides. People who own farms and stuff would be very well off
It would happen for this long. It would take a REALLY long time for things to get up and running again after a solar flare. We are very overdue for one as well so just always be prepared!
The movie is inaccurate about the long term effects quite significantly. Powerful solar flare would induce surge voltages on wires, but the wires have to be miles long to have significant voltage spikes. As such this would largely only cause voltage surges on power transmission and distribution lines as well as phone cables, blowing out transformers and damaging substation switchgear. Individual battery electronics like phones themselves would not be physically damaged and car electrical systems would be fine. Surges can damage electronics that are plugged into a wall, but if your home has a surge protector, those will protect those devices. But it would take a long time for power grids to recover as power companies would have to replace all the damaged switch gear and transformers. The internet infrastructure would also be badly messed up as all the undersea's Telcom cables would be damaged or destroyed. Even fiber cables rely on repeaters built into the cables that would be destroyed. If your home has surge protectors built in as well as a grid backup solar system installed, you would still have power afterwords. and power companies are taking precautions, as shutting down the power grid before a hit would protect them, and we would have about a two hours warning before a big solar flare hits.
and that why USA, and All of europe would go extinct in this universe, people in this movie were very disciplined, and thats why they survived, by helping each other etc. And not breaking shit everywhere..
@@mepik15Eh, not eastern Europe at least. Still got enough communist era people, they remember what it's like to take care of everything and help each other.
I've always dreamed of leaving everything behind and going to live in the mountains but after watching this video i realised it's not as easy as it was portrayed in my head and how dependent we are to technology , honestly this is the scariest movie i've encountered honestly i'm having an epiphany rn
@@DLCS-2 depends what your interests in life are. I'd do fine without technology. I'd just get annoyed that I need to remember my stories instead of writing them down. I wouldn't have time to sit and write anyways so... I'd just raise my chicken for meat & eggs, cow for milk, grains for flour & clothes. I'd just miss exotic spices & tap water I think.
@@paulverse4587 lets face it the world is not all the same. In our place we can still get water via manual water pumps scattered around the city since we dont have any stable water source here. And yes power loss is kinda normal here too.
Honestly, if I was them, I would just stay with grandfather. The chance of something like this happening again is probably rare but I would probably have some kind of trauma of going through something like this if I went back to the city. Living at the countryside was more sustainable.
If electricity as a whole disappeared like this imagine how many planes would just fall from the sky Ike dead flies, how many ships would just aimlessly float around the oceans with absolutely no way of getting help and just eventually waiting for the inevitable That’d be scary af
eating insects is actually a pretty good idea, they're very nutritious. they contain a lot of fats, carbs, and are very high in protein. you can't exactly survive off insects alone but if I was in a survival situation I'd definetly be catching and eating any good sized insects I see, particularly grasshoppers. there are certain insects you probably shouldn't eat tho, I forgot which ones but yea, while you can't live entirely off insects, munching on any edible ones you come across is a really good idea
Not all insects though. I would suggest keeping strictly to grasshoppers, winged termites and locusts (which unfortunately appear once in a blue moon).
@@someguyfromanotherplanet5284 yea I mentioned there's a few you probably shouldn't eat! grasshoppers/locusts (fun fact they're technically the same bug, locust is just a really hungry grasshopper that ganged up with other grasshoppers and changed color) are definetly a good bet
I couldn't agree more. I love the dudes voice, it's very soothing 😌....and you know his name you have to be a true fan. Thanks now I do too. Very fitting 👌 name "Adam"!
In March 2019, Venezuela suffered a sudden power outage in almost all of the country. It lasted between 5 to 7 days, depending on the states you were. Because nobody was prepared, people started cooking all their meats, paying others with electric plants to charge their phones, looting malls, they couldn't find cold water. The struggle was real, pretty similar to the beginning of the film.
@@nehemiahlusad395 is that from Typhoon Cosme in 2009? I'm from pangasinan and it was so frustratingly long of cenpelco to fix all of them 😭. Good thing their were a truck ice vendor always roaming.
I remember that, during the last few days in my state people started to go crazy, and people started stealing and destroying stores in the middle of the day, hundreds of people stole everything from the mall in front of my house and threatened to come steal to our houses as well, we were very very scared, besides the hunger, the thirst, the hot weather and the desperation of not knowing how your family or friends were because we were out of connections, those six days were horrible, and not only that, but after those days electricity came back, but only three or four hours a day, and that was if you were lucky enough to even have electricity at all, that went on for about two more weeks, it was almost exactly like the beginning of this movie.
@@nehemiahlusad395 I don't know how the situation of Phillipines is, so I can't talk in your behalf, but it was not just 7 days, Venezuela has been going through an electric crisis for YEARS now, those seven days without electricity was just a follow up of years of not having electricity for many hours every day and a lot of other long blackouts (besides of all of the other problems Venezuela is going through) , and this electric problem is still going on in Venezuela, two years later, and it doesn't seem to be getting better any time soon.
@@Aryan111ize Humanity is a social species and we have always thrived best by working together Before the advent of modern civilization we weren't just mindlessly killing each other whenever things got a bit bad
@Natalie Wayne not in practice. When a hurricane blew through new Orleans a group of men organized to go help the police in helping people. The police chief was scared out of his mind and had them guard the hq from looters. In the end, there were none. In all that chaos there was not a single case of looting. Kill or be killed is almost never a real situation you're gonna find yourself in no matter how bad it is.
The concept of people who work in a office full of computers not realizing that none of the computers in their office would work in a blackout is immersion breakingly stupid
Yup, but that's Japanese culture for you. They tend to overwork. Some companies even pay their employees to go home early since most of their workers want to work overtime.
Its nice to see that mystery recapped is becoming human. These movie summary channels are such a time saver, i never have to waste 2 hours to watch a movie and dont have to spend money to watch it. Its like Netflix but speed runned
During 2019, my country had a nationwide power outage out of seemingly nowhere. I remember I was at my friend's house when it happened, and I had no way of contacting my family, because even landlines were down, and I was all the way across the city from my house. It was a nightmare. It lasted like two weeks in my zone, but months in other regions, and we at least still had some food and luckily a water tank (because outages aren't unusual here, just not to the scale of that). It paralyzed everything. There was no gas, no cell signal, no internet, nothing. Nothing to do. It drives you crazy, there's not even much sound. My brain blocked a lot of it off, it's now just a blur in my mind, but I still freak out when the power dies, even if it's just for a little while. Outages are no joke, and from what I'm seeing this video is pretty accurate - though IDK if living in the countryside would be much better if you can't farm or anything... EDIT: Since some people are asking, the country is Venezuela!
This is exactly what we experienced after Typhoon Odette last December. From almost 2 months we dont have Electricity Water and Gasoline, ATM are just limited all the stores are out of stocks and some are overpricing. It was just traumatizing :(
