Film

For Those We Love

2007 · 2h 15m · War · Drama

IMDb

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.

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

Noboru Kimura

Second lieutenant Abe

Ren Hulk

Sergeant first class Matsumoto

Yuji Miyashita

Staff sergeant Ishikura

Shinichi TANAKA

Araki

Katsutaka Furuhata

Shigeo Oshima

Noriko Nakagoshi

Ichieda Tsuruta

Sachiko Sakurai

Hisako Bando

Naho Toda

Ryoko Tabata

• Taku ShinjoDirector
• Shintarō IshiharaWriter · Executive Producer
• Hiroyuki KitazawaDirector of Photography
• Shoji UedaDirector of Photography
• Naoki SatoOriginal Music Composer

For Those We Love (2007) Original Trailer [HD]

Release date

May 12, 2007

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

2h 15m

Rated

18

Genres

War, Drama