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The Last Kamikaze
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji Tsuruta stars as a Kamikaze squad leader who has second thoughts about suicide runs. He becomes torn between his own morality and his duty to his country when he must deal with a pilot under his command who refuses to complete his mission.
| Release : | 1970 |
| Rating : | 7.5 |
| Studio : | Toei Company, |
| Crew : | Art Direction, Director of Photography, |
| Cast : | Koji Tsuruta Ken Takakura Tomisaburō Wakayama Sumiko Fuji Sonny Chiba |
| Genre : | Drama War |
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Reviews
Overrated and overhyped
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
I am not a Japanese movie specialist. Just a lover of some kind of features from this country. This could have been a yakuza or a samurai film. It matters of honour, sacrifice, friendship, family...A great film, painful, awful, terrific story of the authentic kamikaze fly boys in the end of the war against USA. The characters are powerful to explain to us, non Japanese fellows, what honour means. We now understand how these guys chose to give their lives for their country. And we watch their doubts, their interrogations before getting into their planes. We see for instance this young guy who could not do it because his old mother, he just thought that he had to take care of her. And when he tells her that afterwards, she says that she is ashamed of him. Painful at the most. But, I repeat, so outstanding. We find here the same actors as we usually see in yakuza movies: Koji Tsuruta, Ken Takakura - the most famous Japanese actor in the Occident after Toshiro Mifune, and Bunta Sugawara. Only Ando Noburu is missing. The director Junya Sato made many yakuzas stuff. I have plenty of them, and maybe I'll comment them later.I just insist on the actors. Poignant characters, noble faces that take tears from your eyes. Especially Koji Tsuruta, my favourite above all of them.A rare and priceless gem.
