9 reviews
War/Drama
2h 15m
2007
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,...

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.
- DirectorTaku Shinjo
- Release12 May 2007
- Genre
- Duration2h 15m
- Budget?
- Revenue?
- Rate9 reviews
- Productions
Toei Video Company, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, Toei Company
Cast

Satoshi Tokushige
Kapitän Nakanishi

Yosuke Kubozuka
Leutnant Bando

Michitaka Tsutsui
Leutnant Tabata

Keiko Kishi
Tome Torihama

Mikako Tabe
Reiko Torihama

Yasuyuki Maekawa
Kaneyama

Tomoya Nakamura
Soichi Kawai

Dai Watanabe
Staff Sergeant Kato

Katsutaka Furuhata
Shigeo Oshima

Noriko Nakagoshi
Ichieda Tsuruta

Sachiko Sakurai
Hisako Bando

Naho Toda
Ryoko Tabata

Yoshiko Miyazaki
Kawai's mother

Minori Terada

Kanae Katsuno
Mioko Torihama

Ryohei Abe

Tohru Emori
田端由蔵

Kenichi Endo
Colonel Azuma

Masatô Ibu
Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi

Satoru Matsuo

Tohru Emori

Ichiro Hashimoto

Renji Ishibashi
Shojo Tsuruta

Hiroshi Katsuno
Colonel Azuma

Keisaku Kimura

Keiko Kishi
Torihama

Mikage

Suzunosuke Tanaka
Shimizu (as Suzunosuke)

Takeo Nakahara
Military police

Hiroyuki Nagato
Oshima's grandfather

Koji Matoba
Navy captain Yukio Seki

Takashi Inoue

Shinichiro Matsuura
kamikaze pilot

Chieko Iinuma

Naoki Yukawa
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