THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN Digitally Remastered Edition

[Machine Translation] The blue...clear Caribbean Sea, the excitement! Excitement! Rushing! Dolphins speak human language! Dolphins assassinate the president! A moving sci-fi epic from the genius Mike Nichols with a brilliant idea! This hit film was the 13th highest grossing foreign film of 1974 ( 280 million)! A marine scientist has been conducting research to make intelligent dolphins understand human language. However, behind the scenes, a plot to assassinate the president of the United States using dolphins is in motion... This is a film adaptation of a famous science fiction novel by French author Robert Merle (translated into Japanese by Hayakawa Shobo). The film was originally to be directed by Roman Polanski, but his wife, Sharon Tate, was brutally murdered by the Manson family, and Mike Nichols, who won the Academy Award for Best Director for "Graduation" ('67), took over the director's chair. The film's shocking setting, in which dolphins speak, made a big splash when it was revealed that dolphin research was actually being conducted for military purposes in many countries. This is a moving masterpiece about the interaction between humans and dolphins that was highly acclaimed around the world when it was first released. --Two dolphins, Farr and Bee, have learned to speak human language through the love and efforts of a marine scientist and his wife. However, when an organization learns of this, it begins to act darkly and kidnaps the two dolphins. The captured dolphins were released into the sea with mines attached to their heads. The dolphins were released into the sea with mines attached to their heads. Beyond them, the presidential ship...

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青く・・・澄みきったカリブ海を、興奮が! 感動が! 突っ走る! イルカが人間の言葉を話す! イルカが大統領を暗殺する!? 鬼才マイク・ニコルズが卓抜な着想で放った感動SF大作! 1974年度洋画配給収入第13位 (2億8,000万円)を記録したヒット作! 知能の発達したイルカに人間の言葉を理解させようと研究を重ねてきた海洋学者。しかしその裏では、このイルカを利用して大統領暗殺を企てる陰謀が動き出していた・・・。フランスの作家、ロベール・メルルの有名SF小説 (翻訳書は早川書房刊)の映画化。もともとロマン・ポランスキー監督がメガホンを取る予定が妻のシャロン・テートがマンソン・ファミリーに惨殺され降板、「卒業」(67)でアカデミー監督賞に輝いたマイク・ニコルズ監督が映画化した。イルカが言葉を話すという本作の衝撃的な設定により、各国の軍事利用で実際にイルカ研究がなされていたことが明るみに出て大きな話題となった。CGなど一切ない、イルカたちの本物の名演技、映画音楽の巨匠ジョルジュ・ドルリューの美しいスコア。公開当時、世界的に絶賛された、人間とイルカの交流が感動を呼ぶ名作。 ――ファーとビーという二頭のイルカは、海洋学者夫妻の愛と努力によって、人間の言葉をしゃべるようになった。ところが、このことを知ったある組織が暗躍をはじめ、二頭のイルカを誘拐していった。捕えられたイルカは、頭に機雷をつけられたまま海中に放たれた。イルカは人間の命ずるまま波間を疾走していく。その彼方には大統領専用船が・・・。