For Those We Love
5.8
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.
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Cast
42 people
Satoshi Tokushige
Kapitän Nakanishi
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Yosuke Kubozuka
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Michitaka Tsutsui
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Keiko Kishi
Tome Torihama
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Mikako Tabe
Reiko Torihama
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Yasuyuki Maekawa
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Tomoya Nakamura
Soichi Kawai
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Dai Watanabe
Staff Sergeant Kato
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Noboru Kimura
Second lieutenant Abe
Ren Hulk
Sergeant first class Matsumoto
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Yuji Miyashita
Staff sergeant Ishikura
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Shinichi TANAKA
Araki
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Taku Shinjo Director · Shintarō Ishihara Writer Naoki Sato Composer
First release May 12, 2007 · Produced in Japan · Production Nippon Television Network Corporation, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
Production
Toei Video Company
Production
Nippon Television Network Corporation
Production
Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
Production
Toei Company
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Japan
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Original title
俺は、君のためにこそ死ににいく
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · May 12, 2007
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
August 12, 2012 · Theatrical
Germany
April 9, 2010 · Physical
Sweden
December 12, 2012 · Physical · DVD & Blu-ray release
United Kingdom
April 25, 2011 · Physical · DVD
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