Limit of Love: Umizaru
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- Movie: Umizaru 2: Test of Trust / Limit of Love: Umizaru
- Japanese: 海猿 2 / LIMIT OF LOVE 海猿
- Director: Eiichiro Hasumi
- Writer: Shuho Sato, Yasushi Fukuda
- Producer: Chikahiro Ando, Chihiro Kameyama
- Cinematographer
- Release Date: May 6, 2006
- Runtime: 117 min
- Production Company: Fuji TV, Pony Canyon, Toho, Shogakukan Productions, Robot Communications
- Distributor: Toho
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
A small team of Coast Guard divers, including Daisuke, rappels onto the ship from a helicopter and begins to evacuate the panicked passengers. Then Daisuke finds a familiar face - Kanna. They had a tiff the night before about their wedding plans - Kanna had already made her dress, while Daisuke was still reluctant to propose - and she left for Tokyo, feeling like a fool. Now she see Daisuke in a different, more heroic light - but before they can properly reconcile, she has to evacuate, while Daisuke searches for stray passengers.
He finds two - a pregnant woman (Ohtsuka Nene) and an excitable man (Fukikoshi Mitsuru) who reluctant to leave his expensive foreign car. Through a series of mishaps, Daisuke, his pal and fellow diver Tetsuya (Sato Ryuta), and the two passengers end up trapped on the ship, as the water seeps in from below and the flames roar above.
The Coast Guard swings into action to save this quartet, but despite the presence of dozens of Guardsmen, the rescue operation does not go smoothly. Who can save them?
Notes
- Related titles:
- Umizaru (2004)
- Umizaru (Fuji TV / 2005)
- Limit of Love: Umizaru (2006)
- The Last Message: Umizaru | Za rasuto messeji: Umizaru (2010)
- Brave Hearts: Umizaru (2012)
Cast
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| Hideaki Ito | Ai Kato | Ryuta Sato | Nene Otsuka | Mitsuru Fukikoshi |
| Daisuke Senzaki | Kanna Izawa | Tetsuya Yoshioka | Megumi Honma | Shinichi Ebihawa |
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| Saburo Tokito | Ryosuke Miki | Reina Asami | YosiYosi Arakawa | Yusuke Hirayama |
| Iwao Shimokawa | Sadayuki Katsuragi | Shiori Otobe | Masahiko Hattori | Takumi Yamaji |
- Ken Ishiguro - Isamu Kitao
- Munetaka Aoki - Masaya Watanabe
- Tadahiro Aoki - Tadahiro Muto
- Kazumi Arimi - Tadashi Ono
- Mayumi Asaka - Utako Izawa
- Hiroki Ebata - Setoguchi Shigeru
- Tatsuya Fuji - Gentaro
- Motoki Fukami - Makoto Tsuchiya
- Katsutaka Furuhata - Yuta Yaegashi
- Hiroshi Fuse - Shinichi Yabuki
- Masato Ibu - Daisaku Higo
- Shinpei Ichikawa - Tatsuro Yano
- Kisuke Iida - Kenji Miike
- Seiji Iinuma - Kohei Hayashi
- Atsushi Ito - Hajime Kudo
- Ken Kaito - Yuji Mishima
- Karina - Erika Matsubara
- Ryoko Kawase - Sayaka Tsuji
- Katsumi Kiba - Tadashi Uchimura
- Jun Kunimura - Masaki Igarashi
- Kyoko - Natsuko Nakasako
- Toru Masuoka - Shinpei Tsuda
- Ken Mitsuishi - Shinji Nashimoto
- Hiroki Miyake - Kenjiro Bessho
- Taisei Miyamoto - Makoto Takei
- Mitsuru Murata - Atsushi Kawaguchi
- Toru Nakamura - Masaki Ikezawa
- Toru Nakane - Shinji Otomo
- Isao Natsuyagi - Kotaro Katsuta
- Kengo Oguchi - Kensuke Gunji
- Kaoru Okunuki - Rieko Ono
- Shinya Owada - Kazuya Mitamura
- Kou Saito - Shinji Tadokoro
- Takumi Saito
- Akira Sakamoto - Daigo Iwamatsu
- Makoto Sakamoto - Kota Nagashima
- Yugo Sakamoto - Masaya Honmaru
- Shinya Sano - Hibiki Nakahara
- Hitomi Sato - Chika Mitsumori
- Takuma Sugawara - Koichi Shigetomi
- Kazuma Suzuki - Kosuke Fuyushiba
- Sogen Tanaka - Eiji Nomura
- Tetsushi Tanaka - Shigeru Bando
- Kanji Tsuda - Keisuke Misawa
- Asami Usuda - Rei Hoshino
- Hisako Watanabe - Mari Kasai
- Noriko Watanabe - Miyuki Sonobe
- Miyoko Yoshimoto - Naoko Ikezawa
Trailer
Awards
- "Outstanding Achievement Award from the Chairman" (planning team) - 2007 (30th) Japan Academy Prize - February 16, 2007
HK Neo Reviews Says:
Aug 06 2009 12:41 am
All in all, there is really little worth recommending about this sequel, apart from it being a Japanese blockbuster based on a highly successful comic book. Limit of Love – Umizaru 2 is a film filled with clichés and apart from some life and death situations, the film rarely takes off or excites the audience. A true blockbuster should be both entertaining and fun, but Umizaru is neither that or emotional. The result is a feeling of lacking in nearly every department. Points should be given for the manner and outlook of the sinking ship and the theme of how much one are willing to sacrifice for saving others is worth nothing. Still, Umizaru 2 fails as a stand alone film and is ultimately a questionable sequel, but at the very least Japanese is making big budget movies again…
I rate it 5/10