For Those We Love

For Those We Love (2007)

WarDrama

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.

Director: Taku Shinjo

Casts

	Satoshi Tokushige as Kapitän Nakanishi
	Yosuke Kubozuka as Leutnant Bando
	Michitaka Tsutsui as Leutnant Tabata
	Keiko Kishi as Tome Torihama
	Mikako Tabe as Reiko Torihama
	Yasuyuki Maekawa as Kaneyama
	Tomoya Nakamura as Soichi Kawai
	Dai Watanabe as Staff Sergeant Kato
	Noboru Kimura as Second lieutenant Abe
	Ren Hulk as Sergeant first class Matsumoto
	Yuji Miyashita as Staff sergeant Ishikura
	Shinichi TANAKA as Araki
	Katsutaka Furuhata as Shigeo Oshima
	Noriko Nakagoshi as Ichieda Tsuruta
	Sachiko Sakurai as Hisako Bando
	Naho Toda as Ryoko Tabata
	Yoshiko Miyazaki as Kawai's mother
	Minori Terada as
	Kanae Katsuno as Mioko Torihama
	Ryohei Abe as
	Tohru Emori as 田端由蔵
	Kenichi Endo as Colonel Azuma
	Masatô Ibu as Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi
	Satoru Matsuo as
	Tohru Emori as
	Dennis Falt as American naval officer
	Cleve Gray as Bloodied Sailor
	Ichiro Hashimoto as
	Renji Ishibashi as Shojo Tsuruta
	Hiroshi Katsuno as Colonel Azuma
	Keisaku Kimura as
	Keiko Kishi as Torihama
	Mikage as
	Haruku Ren as
	Suzunosuke Tanaka as Shimizu (as Suzunosuke)
	Yoshida Ayano as
	Takeo Nakahara as Military police
	Hiroyuki Nagato as Oshima's grandfather
	Koji Matoba as Navy captain Yukio Seki
	Takashi Inoue as
	Shinichiro Matsuura as kamikaze pilot
	Chieko Iinuma as
	Naoki Yukawa as

Crew