The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No sooner is the Isokaze on open water, however, then the FTG reveal themselves to be terrorist stowaways who kill the ship's captain, send the rest of the crew overboard and take control of the vessel. The ship is carrying a secret biological weapon which the terrorists are now threatening to use to level Tokyo! Only a stowaway NCO, Sengoko (played by Sanada Hiroyuki from Ring and Twilight Samurai) is in a position to stop them - but does he really have what it takes to save the day? Playing like a cross between a sea-faring version of Top Gun and Die Hard, director Sakamoto Junji shows that it's not just Hollywood that can produce thrill-a-minute action spectaculars.
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27 people
Hiroyuki Sanada
Hisashi Sengoku
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Akira Terao
Hirotaka Miyazu
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Koichi Sato
Diasuke Atsumi
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Kiichi Nakai
Yong Fa
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Ryo Katsuji
Kou Kisaragi
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Chae Min-seo
Jon-hee
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Eisaku Yoshida
Isamu Takenaka
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Shosuke Tanihara
Yudai Kazama
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Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
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Masanobu Ando
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Battle Royale
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Yoshio Harada
Koichiro Kajimoto
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Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
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Mieko Harada
Yoshie Miyazu
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Ittoku Kishibe
Kazuma Seto
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Survive Style 5+
Junji Sakamoto Director · Kenzaburô Iida Screenplay Yasuo Hasegawa Screenplay
Budget $12M · First release July 30, 2005 · Produced in Japan
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Budget
$12,000,000
Production
Cross Media
Production
Nippon Herald Films
Production
Shochiku
Production
dentsu
Production
Bandai Visual
Production
Geneon Universal Entertainment
Production
IMAGICA
Production
Tokyo FM
Production
Sankei Shimbun
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Japan
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Original title
亡国のイージス
Original language
Japanese
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Japanese
Release dates
Japan · July 30, 2005
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No release date listed for United States.
South Korea
April 12, 2007 · Theatrical
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