The Cruel Sea

It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required The Washingtonbased CITES treaty in which Japan participates puts a limit on the number of warships any country can possess As a result Japan has to decommission a ship to its makers disappointment An institute of technologys laboratory designs a new ship Due to less ships sailors have to retire and are also disappointed The laboratorys manager and an admiral are visiting a patient at a hospital and meet coincidentally The former has a daughter who worries about her fathers workload She asks him to accompany her to a concert Father has little time but is convinced for her sake He is inspired for a ships design at the performance The film is inspired by the life of Jo Hiraga