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For Those We Love (2007)

For Those We Love (2007)

Drama War
Release Date: 2007, May 12
Directors: Taku Shinjo
Countries: Japan
Production: Toei Video Company, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, Toei Company
Cast: Tohru Emori, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Yosuke Kubozuka, Tomoya Nakamura, Takeo Nakahara, Renji Ishibashi, Kenichi Endo, Dai Watanabe, Shinichiro Matsuura, Suzunosuke Tanaka, Keiko Kishi, Hiroyuki Nagato

Overview:

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.