Father of the Kamikaze

Father of the Kamikaze (1974)


  • Genre: War, Drama, History
  • Release Date: 1974-09-14
  • Runtime: 3h 19min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: Toei Company
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Kōsaku Yamashita

Summary

Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated solution was to convince the Americans that invading Japan would cause massive casualties on both sides. The cold logic of suicide attacks, where one man and one plane could kill hundreds, seemed the only solution. In one of the cruel ironies of fate, Ohnishi actually succeeded; he convinced the Americans that invading Japan would be too costly in lives. But what he could not foresee was that America had another way of ending the war.

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  • Koji Tsuruta

    as Admiral Takijiro Onishi
  • Noboru Andō

    as
  • Shinjirô Ehara

    as
  • Tatsuo Endō

    as
  • Kensaku Hara

    as
  • Kiyoto Harada

    as
  • Ryōji Hayama

    as
  • Shōtarō Hayashi

    as
  • Gorō Ibuki

    as
  • Ryō Ikebe

    as
  • Masataka Iwao

    as
  • Nobuo Kaneko

    as
  • Kinya Kitaoji

    as
  • Akira Kobayashi

    as
  • Toshio Kurosawa

    as
  • Hiroki Matsukata

    as
  • Shinichirō Mikami

    as
  • Hideo Murota

    as
  • Kenichi Sakuragi

    as
  • Bunta Sugawara

    as
  • Asao Uchida

    as
  • Tatsuo Umemiya

    as
  • Rinichi Yamamoto

    as
  • Shingo Yamashiro

    as
  • Tsunehiko Watase

    as
Directing Kōsaku Yamashita Director
Sound Chūji Kinoshita Original Music Composer
Writing Kazuo Kasahara Screenplay
Writing Tatsuo Nogami Screenplay
Production Kōji Shundō Executive Producer
Camera Kenji Tsukagoshi Director of Photography
Lighting Etsuaki Masuda Lighting Director

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