Saru no Gundan
Japanese science fiction series
Saru no Gundan (SFドラマ 猿の軍団; Army of the Apes) is a 1974 Japanese science fiction television series, that ran on the Tokyo Broadcasting System, from 6 October 1974 to 30 March 1975. Consisting of twenty-six half-hour episodes, the series capitalised on the success of Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel La Planète des singes, which was known in English as Planet of the Apes, and the film and television franchise. Beyond the basic plotline of a futuristic Earth ruled by apes, Saru no Gundan takes nothing from the Planet of the Apes franchise.
Summary
Jirō and Yurika visit the institute where cryogenic experiments are being conducted by Jirō's uncle Sakaki Sumiko and his assistant Izumi Kazuko. They witness a monkey being unfrozen. Jirō climbs into one of the cryogenic chambers but a volcanic eruption causes an earthquake which seals him in. As the building is falling apart, the lab assistant, Izumi, places Yurika in a cryogenic chamber to protect her, then enters one herself. Falling debris activates the chambers, so the woman and two children are frozen. The earthquake buries the lab under tons of rock, but the steel capsules survive. In the year 3714, the three capsules are dug up and they are defrosted.
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