About
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.
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Toei Video Company, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, Toei Company
Original Title
俺は、君のためにこそ死ににいく
Original Language
Japanese
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Cast
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Satoshi Tokushige
Kapitän Nakanishi
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Yosuke Kubozuka
Leutnant Bando
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Michitaka Tsutsui
Leutnant Tabata
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Keiko Kishi
Tome Torihama
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Mikako Tabe
Reiko Torihama
Y
Yasuyuki Maekawa
Kaneyama
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Tomoya Nakamura
Soichi Kawai
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Dai Watanabe
Staff Sergeant Kato
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Noboru Kimura
Second lieutenant Abe
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Shinichi TANAKA
Araki
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Katsutaka Furuhata
Shigeo Oshima
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Noriko Nakagoshi
Ichieda Tsuruta
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Sachiko Sakurai
Hisako Bando
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Naho Toda
Ryoko Tabata
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Yoshiko Miyazaki
Kawai's mother
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Minori Terada
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Kanae Katsuno
Mioko Torihama
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Ryohei Abe
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Tohru Emori
田端由蔵
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Kenichi Endo
Colonel Azuma
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