The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner

On August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki led the last Special Attack Force pilots across the Pacific, to crash into American ships. Thirty-five years later, the men who serviced the aeroplanes are still meeting up for their annual dinner. Now settled into civilian jobs - dentist, baker, taxi-driver, insurance salesman - and with children and grandchildren, they bemoan the decay of traditional Japanese values. Hard liquor is imbibed, toasts raised to the memory of the heroic dead, and old rivalries resurface. The survivors' dissatisfaction with post-war life comes to a head when, in a moment of drunken inspiration, Tokkotai the airline pilot decides on a symbolic gesture to show that the kamikaze spirit lives on.

Peter Sallis

Shushin

John Blythe

Kamiwashi

Harold Goodwin

Shimpu

Don Henderson

Tokkotai

Richard Vernon

Makato

Patricia Prior

Miss Tomishita

Mary Maddox

Girl Singer

Mark Penfold

Co-Pilot

• Baz TaylorDirector
• Stewart ParkerWriter

Release date

February 17, 1981

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 9m

Genres

Drama, Comedy, Music, TV Movie