For Those We Love
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- Movie: For Those We Love / I Go to Die for You
- Romaji: Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku
- Japanese: 俺は、君のためにこそ死ににいく
- Director: Taku Shinjo
- Writer: Shintaro Ishihara
- Cinematographer: Hiroyuki Kitazawa, Masaharu Ueda
- Release Date: May 12, 2007
- Runtime: 140 min.
- Studio: Toei
- Distributor: Toei
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
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. Story follows the lives of kamikaze pilots, as remembered by an aging Kyushu restaurateur who cherishes their memory.
Cast
- Toru Emori
- Kenichi Endo
- Katsutaka Furuhata
- Ichiro Hashimoto
- Renji Ishibashi
- Hiroshi Katsuno
- Kanae Katsuno
- Noboru Kimura
- Keiko Kishi - Tome Torihama
- Yosuke Kubozuka - Katsuji Bando
- Yasuyuki Maekawa
- Satoru Matsuo
- Mikage
- Yuji Miyashita
- Noriko Nakagoshi
- Tomoya Nakamura
- Ren Hulk
- Suzunosuke - Shimizu
- Mikako Tabe
- Minori Terada
- Naho Toda
- Satoshi Tokushige - Masaya Nakanishi
- Michitaka Tsutsui - Koichi Tabata
- Dai Watanabe
- Sachiko Sakurai
- Takashi Inoue
Showa 20 Says:
Oct 30 2011 4:44 am
Watching the movie gave flesh at last to those nameless young boys who gave their lives to a senseless cause. They are not lunatics for being kamikazes. Rather, they were simply victims of an awful militaristic mentality. Never to war again.