For Those We Love

Name: For Those We Love
Genre: War, Drama
Released: 2007-05-12
Duration: 2 h 15 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Satoshi Tokushige, Yosuke Kubozuka, Michitaka Tsutsui, Keiko Kishi, Mikako Tabe

俺は、君のためにこそ死ににいく (2007)

2:15 (135 min)

War, Drama

Japan

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

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Production

Toei Video Company, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation

Release date

12 May 2007

Director

Taku Shinjo

Scenario

Shintarō Ishihara

Composer

Naoki Sato

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Actors

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

All actors and roles (10)

Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

Footage from the film was used in the music video for the song 'Forward and Upward' by the group 'Orgiya Pravednikov'.
In December 2007 (the year the film was released), the settlement of Tiran ceased to exist as a separate administrative unit and was annexed, along with other small settlements, to the city of Minamikyushu.
The Kamikaze Museum was opened in 1975 at the former Chiran airbase (construction was fully completed in 1986).
The film features the patriotic song "If we go out to sea...", which accompanied mourning events from the front throughout the war and, toward the end of the war, became associated with kamikaze missions.
This film was quite highly regarded in Japan. Clips from the movie are broadcast at the Kamikaze museum.