Synopsis
In 1943, as Japan's WWII effort falters, a vice-admiral proposes training squadrons of "volunteer" flyers to crash their armed planes into Allied warships. Yarn follows the lives of kamikaze pilots, as remembered by an aging Kyushu restaurateur who cherishes their memory. Honoring the dead and multiple military anthems may stir the soul of some Japanese, but elsewhere auds will make a one-way trip for exits. Battle scenes are well-executed and script delivers some memorable scenes, but overall competent helming and thesping are powerless over writer-cum-Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishiara's repetitive storytelling. A post-war postscript adds considerable length to an already over-extended narrative. Tech credits are good quality.
Ratings
10 audience votes
Key crew
- Shintarō IshiharaWriter
- Taku ShinjoDirector
- Naoki SatoOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Satoshi TokushigeKapitän Nakanishi
- Yosuke KubozukaLeutnant Bando
- Michitaka TsutsuiLeutnant Tabata
- Keiko KishiTome Torihama
- Mikako TabeReiko Torihama
- Yasuyuki MaekawaKaneyama
- Tomoya NakamuraSoichi Kawai
- Dai WatanabeStaff Sergeant Kato
- Noboru KimuraSecond lieutenant Abe
- Ren HulkSergeant first class Matsumoto
- Yuji MiyashitaStaff sergeant Ishikura
- Shinichi TANAKAAraki
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2022
Shares: Michitaka Tsutsui · Satoshi Tokushige · Drama
