For Those We Love
Original title: 俺は、君のためにこそ死ににいく
Director
Taku Shinjo
Screenplay
Shintarō Ishihara
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.
Release
May 12, 2007
Budget
—
Country
Japan
Revenue
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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
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
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Trailer
Official trailer
For Those We Love
Where to Watch
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