
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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Satoshi Tokushige as Kapitän Nakanishi

Yosuke Kubozuka as Leutnant Bando

Michitaka Tsutsui as Leutnant Tabata

Keiko Kishi as Tome Torihama

Mikako Tabe as Reiko Torihama

Yasuyuki Maekawa as Kaneyama

Tomoya Nakamura as Soichi Kawai

Dai Watanabe as Staff Sergeant Kato

Noboru Kimura as Second lieutenant Abe

Ren Hulk as Sergeant first class Matsumoto

Yuji Miyashita as Staff sergeant Ishikura

Shinichi TANAKA as Araki

Katsutaka Furuhata as Shigeo Oshima

Noriko Nakagoshi as Ichieda Tsuruta

Sachiko Sakurai as Hisako Bando

Naho Toda as Ryoko Tabata

Yoshiko Miyazaki as Kawai's mother

Minori Terada as

Kanae Katsuno as Mioko Torihama

Ryohei Abe as

Tohru Emori as 田端由蔵

Kenichi Endo as Colonel Azuma

Masatô Ibu as Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi

Satoru Matsuo as

Tohru Emori as

Dennis Falt as American naval officer

Cleve Gray as Bloodied Sailor

Ichiro Hashimoto as

Renji Ishibashi as Shojo Tsuruta

Hiroshi Katsuno as Colonel Azuma

Keisaku Kimura as

Keiko Kishi as Torihama

Mikage as

Haruku Ren as

Suzunosuke Tanaka as Shimizu (as Suzunosuke)

Yoshida Ayano as

Takeo Nakahara as Military police

Hiroyuki Nagato as Oshima's grandfather

Koji Matoba as Navy captain Yukio Seki

Takashi Inoue as

Shinichiro Matsuura as kamikaze pilot

Chieko Iinuma as

Naoki Yukawa as
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