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
Satoru Matsuo
Noriko Nakagoshi
as Ichieda Tsuruta
Minori Terada
Kenichi Endo
as Colonel Azuma
Suzunosuke Tanaka
as Shimizu (as Suzunosuke)
Keiko Kishi
as Tome Torihama, Torihama
Ichiro Hashimoto
Takeo Nakahara
as Military police
Chieko Iinuma
Satoshi Tokushige
as Kapitän Nakanishi
Tomoya Nakamura
as Soichi Kawai
Yoshiko Miyazaki
as Kawai's mother
Renji Ishibashi
as Shojo Tsuruta
Hiroyuki Nagato
as Oshima's grandfather
Naoki Yukawa
Yosuke Kubozuka
as Leutnant Bando
Dai Watanabe
as Staff Sergeant Kato
Koji Matoba
as Navy captain Yukio Seki
Takashi Inoue
Masatô Ibu
as Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi
Hiroshi Katsuno
as Colonel Azuma
Keisaku Kimura
Mikage
Shinichiro Matsuura
as kamikaze pilot
Mikako Tabe
as Reiko Torihama
Yasuyuki Maekawa
as Kaneyama
Kanae Katsuno
as Mioko Torihama
Michitaka Tsutsui
as Leutnant Tabata
Sachiko Sakurai
as Hisako Bando
Ryohei Abe
Tohru Emori
as 田端由蔵,
Katsutaka Furuhata
as Shigeo Oshima
Naho Toda
as Ryoko Tabata
