"Kamikaze funeral pyre"
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the war draws to a close, his commanding officers become increasingly desperate and push their men to ever more absurd extremes. The ridiculousness of the orders from above peak when the hero of the story is assigned to drive a one-man submarine straight into the hull of an enemy battleship.
Minori Terada
Him
Naoko Ohtani
The Girl
Yūnosuke Itō
Skipper
Hideyo Amamoto
Father of Him
Masumi Harukawa
Tanie Kitabayashi
Sue Mitobe
Tatsuya Nakadai
Narrator
Ichirō Nakatani
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the war draws to a close, his commanding officers become increasingly desperate and push their men to ever more absurd extremes. The ridiculousness of the orders from above peak when the hero of the story is assigned to drive a one-man submarine straight into the hull of an enemy battleship.
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