For Those We Love

For Those We Love — Plot

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.

• Release date
• May 12, 2007
• Runtime
• 135 min
• Genres
• War, Drama
• Director
• Taku Shinjo

For Those We Love — Cast

Satoshi Tokushige Kapitän Nakanishi Yosuke Kubozuka Leutnant Bando Michitaka Tsutsui Leutnant Tabata Keiko Kishi Tome Torihama Mikako Tabe Reiko Torihama Yasuyuki Maekawa Kaneyama Tomoya Nakamura Soichi Kawai Dai Watanabe Staff Sergeant Kato