• May 12, 2007
  • 135 min
  • Full-HD

For Those We Love (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, 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.

Category
Country
Japan
Companies
Toei Video Company Nippon Television Network Corporation Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation Toei Company

Satoshi Tokushige

Kapitän Nakanishi

Yosuke Kubozuka

Leutnant Bando

Michitaka Tsutsui

Leutnant Tabata

Keiko Kishi

Tome Torihama

Mikako Tabe

Reiko Torihama

Yasuyuki Maekawa

Kaneyama

Masatô Ibu

Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi

Satoru Matsuo

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