For Those We Love
12/05/2007
2h 15m
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.
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
Noboru Kimura
Second lieutenant Abe
Ren Hulk
Sergeant first class Matsumoto
Yuji Miyashita
Staff sergeant Ishikura
Shinichi TANAKA
Araki
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
Dennis Falt
American naval officer
Cleve Gray
Bloodied Sailor
Ichiro Hashimoto
Renji Ishibashi
Shojo Tsuruta
Hiroshi Katsuno
Colonel Azuma
Keisaku Kimura
Keiko Kishi
Torihama
Mikage
Haruku Ren
Suzunosuke Tanaka
Shimizu (as Suzunosuke)
Yoshida Ayano
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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