For Those We Love (2007)
Synopsis
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
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Satoshi Tokushige
as Kapitän Nakanishi
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Yosuke Kubozuka
as Leutnant Bando
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Michitaka Tsutsui
as Leutnant Tabata
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Keiko Kishi
as Tome Torihama
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Mikako Tabe
as Reiko Torihama
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Yasuyuki Maekawa
as Kaneyama
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Tomoya Nakamura
as Soichi Kawai
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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
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Katsutaka Furuhata
as Shigeo Oshima
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Noriko Nakagoshi
as Ichieda Tsuruta
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Sachiko Sakurai
as Hisako Bando
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Naho Toda
as Ryoko Tabata
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Yoshiko Miyazaki
as Kawai's mother
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Minori Terada
Crew
- Taku Shinjo Director
- Hiroyuki Kitazawa Director of Photography
- Shoji Ueda Director of Photography
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Naoki Sato
Original Music Composer
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Shintarō Ishihara
Writer
