For Those We Love
俺は、君のためにこそ死ににいく
Release: 2007-05-12
·Runtime: 135m
·★ 6.2
War
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
Toei Video Company
Nippon Television Network Corporation
Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
Toei Company
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Mikako Tabe
as Reiko Torihama
Tomoya Nakamura
as Soichi Kawai
Yoshiko Miyazaki
as Kawai's mother
Satoru Matsuo
Takashi Inoue
Michitaka Tsutsui
as Leutnant Tabata
Minori Terada
Takeo Nakahara
as Military police
Hiroyuki Nagato
as Oshima's grandfather
Chieko Iinuma
Ryohei Abe
Masatô Ibu
as Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi
Katsutaka Furuhata
as Shigeo Oshima
Naho Toda
as Ryoko Tabata
Kanae Katsuno
as Mioko Torihama
Hiroshi Katsuno
as Colonel Azuma
Keisaku Kimura
Koji Matoba
as Navy captain Yukio Seki
Naoki Yukawa
Yasuyuki Maekawa
as Kaneyama
Tohru Emori
as 田端由蔵,
Kenichi Endo
as Colonel Azuma
Ichiro Hashimoto
Mikage
Noriko Nakagoshi
as Ichieda Tsuruta
Keiko Kishi
as Tome Torihama, Torihama
Dai Watanabe
as Staff Sergeant Kato
Sachiko Sakurai
as Hisako Bando
Suzunosuke Tanaka
as Shimizu (as Suzunosuke)
Shinichiro Matsuura
as kamikaze pilot
Satoshi Tokushige
as Kapitän Nakanishi
Yosuke Kubozuka
as Leutnant Bando
Renji Ishibashi
as Shojo Tsuruta
