Film

Destroyer Yukikaze

1964 · 1h 32m · War · Drama

Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream is eventually realized when he is transferred to the new and powerful destroyer Yukikaze which he helped to build. When the Pacific War breaks out Yukikaze performs valiantly in the South Pacific, and while on shore leave, Kida meets and falls in love with Yukiko, younger sister of his commander.

Isamu Nagato

Yutaro Kida

Shima Iwashita

Yukiko Tejima

Teruo Yoshida

Homare Suguro

Yuji Kida

Shinichirō Mikami

Bunta Sugawara

Kōji Matsubara

Kumeko Urabe

Kinuko Obata

Kunie Tejima

Shinsuke Mikimoto

Ken Sudo

Keijirō Morozumi

Hiroshi Aoyama

Ken Mishima

Hideo Hongo

Yukari Uehara

• Tatsuo YamadaDirector
• Yasuhiro TokuraScreenplay
• Kenichi OhashiScreenplay
• Masao ShiraiExecutive Producer
• Hiroshige SanoExecutive Producer
• Shigeo ItabashiDirector of Photography
• Shin NagataEditor

Release date

February 16, 1964

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 32m

Genres

War, Drama