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Kamikaze: Le dernier assaut

Original title: Eien no 0
  • 2013
  • 2h 24m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
3K
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Kamikaze: Le dernier assaut (2013)
ActionDramaMysteryRomanceWar

A young woman and her brother explore the history of their grandfather, who died in WW2. They start contacting the men who flew with him, asking them about who he was.A young woman and her brother explore the history of their grandfather, who died in WW2. They start contacting the men who flew with him, asking them about who he was.A young woman and her brother explore the history of their grandfather, who died in WW2. They start contacting the men who flew with him, asking them about who he was.

  • Director
    • Takashi Yamazaki
  • Writers
    • Takashi Yamazaki
    • Tamio Hayashi
    • Naoki Hyakuta
  • Stars
    • Jun'ichi Okada
    • Haruma Miura
    • Mao Inoue
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.3/10
    3K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Takashi Yamazaki
    • Writers
      • Takashi Yamazaki
      • Tamio Hayashi
      • Naoki Hyakuta
    • Stars
      • Jun'ichi Okada
      • Haruma Miura
      • Mao Inoue
    • 25User reviews
    • 13Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 10 wins & 4 nominations total

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    Jun'ichi Okada
    Jun'ichi Okada
    • Miyabe
    Haruma Miura
    Haruma Miura
    • Kentarô Saeki
    Mao Inoue
    • Matsuno
    Gaku Hamada
    Gaku Hamada
    • Isaki
    Hirofumi Arai
    Hirofumi Arai
    • Kageura
    Shôta Sometani
    Shôta Sometani
    • Oishi
    Takahiro Miura
    Takahiro Miura
    • Takeda
    Tatsuya Ueda
    • Koyama
    Ken Aoki
    • Ito
    Rakuto Tochihara
    • Teranishi
    Ippei Sasaki
    Yûya Endô
    Yûya Endô
    • Kagawa
    Takehiro Hira
    Takehiro Hira
    Tarô Suruga
    Toshihiro Yashiba
    Kisuke Iida
    Kisuke Iida
    Ryôhei Abe
    Akio Nakadai
    • Director
      • Takashi Yamazaki
    • Writers
      • Takashi Yamazaki
      • Tamio Hayashi
      • Naoki Hyakuta
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    User reviews25

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    9OpinionGuy

    one of the best movies i have seen in 2013

    The Eternal Zero, just had it all, it is masterfully executed. The visual effects during the combat scenes are pretty spectacular. It's deeply touching story and amazing acting.

    It's about time we see things from the Japanese perspective when it comes to the WW2. I'm tired of all the americanfied WW2 movies. Nothing beat the Japanese film making when it comes to dramas they make, they are simply the best at it. This movie is no exceptions and will leave you the viewer with heavy emotions and a lasting impression. It is simply Japanese film making at it's best.

    I can highly recommend this movie, to anyone that is interested in Japanese drama. Specific to war movies buffs that want to see how it was on the other side.
    8steveo122

    No matter why or who you fight, the fighters are proud of their victories and devastated by their defeats.

    Outstanding. Epic. Straight to the upper echelons of my all time greatest war movies list. I had never heard of it until I recently read a list of films with the best flying sequences and the air battle scenes are riveting. Caveat: if you don't like CGI, you won't like this. It's 2013 CGI, not flawless, but the sequences are so ambitious and well planned that if it had been put together by the people who did "Dunkirk" it would be one of the greatest war movies made. (It's on my list, but that's my list.) And that includes the predominant very well written, emotionally satisfying drama plot that atones for any nit-picky production flaws. "The Eternal Zero has come under criticism for its nationalistic and sympathetic depiction of the Kamikaze pilots." Oh, STFU. There is nothing 'glorious' about it and if you can watch something like this without sympathy... No matter why or who you fight, the fighters are proud of their victories and devastated by their defeats. I've certainly never seen a better 'Japanese side of things' film.
    10argento100

    Simply excellent.

    Deeply touching story, amazing acting, excellent FX and war recreations. The most important is the human perspective, the individuals outside the wrong or right of the history books. You will cry seeing this movie, and its fine. I do not agree with other reviewer about being a movie to "justify" Japan. Is a movie about persons, their lives and struggles in the most horrible point of human history and human nature. I took this movie, as many other war movies, as a message to the people so they understand this is the horror of war and how it affects people like you, this would happen to you or your people, this is what happened, happens and will happen. Outside the big story of battles, strategy, the macro history, the little stories of the persons, no matters which side. I'll save this movie next to Letters from Iwo Jima and Ünsere Mutter, Ünsere Vätter.
    9tosico-864-742901

    Very accurate historical details

    This movie was a big hit in Japan which is good because it is essentialy an anti war film. The military detail is outstanding, right down to camoflage changes to aircraft and ships throughout the war. The Impirial Japanese Navy did start the war th the best pilots and best plane (Mistubishi Zero) as quoted in the movie. A lot of Japanese pilots were already veterens of the war in Manchuria (China). In the long run as Admiral Yamamoto feared the US became unbeatable once their industrial and economic power ramped up. Without a doubt the fact the allies cracked the Japanese naval code contributed to the allied victory (at Midway especialy). The nuclear bombs and then the Soviet Union declaring war on Japan forced the Japanese surrender saving countless lives no doubt. As a side note, Japan and the Russians are technicaly still at war and have land claims against each other.
    8ExpendableMan

    A sympathetic look at suicide bombers...no wait, come back...

    Despite being one of the better films hiding among the titles on Netflix, 'The Eternal Zero' doesn't seem to have attracted much attention in the west. Given that it's a film that casts a sympathetic look at Japan's kamikaze pilots though that's not exactly surprising. It's already been subject to a wealth of controversy by critics in Japan and abroad, especially as there's one pivotal scene that compares them (favourably) to modern day suicide bombers.

    This is a shame because at it's heart, 'The Eternal Zero' is a defiantly anti-war movie and a genuinely moving one. Beginning at a funeral, it focuses on siblings Kentaro and Keiko Oishi and their quest to find out more about the Grandfather they never knew. They soon discover that their relative Kyuzo Miyabe was a fighter pilot that died in a kamikaze attack on an aircraft carrier but throughout the war, he was almost universally hated by his fellow pilots. They meet with several veterans who all accuse Miyabe of cowardice for avoiding combat at any cost and after being shouted at by several angry old men, are understandably keen to throw in the towel. Then they decide to go for one last interview and things start to get more complex.

    From there, the film unfolds Citizen Kane-style through interviews and flashbacks. It turns out Oishi was in truth a brilliant pilot, but one who also desperately wanted to live and return home to his wife. This made him thoroughly unpopular in a culture which at the time venerated the honourable sacrifice, but it also makes him something of a cypher character. Nobody in their right mind would want to smash themselves into a warship in a burning jet plane after all, so how does someone come to be persuaded to do that? And could it happen to any of us or was it something that only Imperial Japan could convince it's people to do?

    What follows is a moving story of courage disguised as cowardice and a man who firmly believed in life at all cost rather than pointless deaths. There's a few brilliant scenes where characters juggle certain death against uncertain life, not least where Oishi convinces a fellow pilot not to turn back for a suicide run, only to wind up suffering an even worse fate because of it.

    On a technical level too the film does a great job in recreating aerial combat through CGI (a practical necessity given the lack of functioning Zeros nowadays). The focus isn't on the combat though and anyone expecting constant dogfights will be disappointed. The Battle of Midway scene for example ends all too soon and often, we see the aftermath of battle rather than the battle itself. It makes up for it though in the human drama and when Oishi finds himself flying escort to his own students and has to watch them squander their lives pointlessly, it's both visually impressive and moving.

    Anyone who still harbours resentment for the Japanese and their actions during WW2 however will still hate this movie. There's no mention of the atrocities of Nanking or the mistreatment of POWs for example, but then they're not the focus of the film. This is about impressionable young men being brainwashed into throwing their lives away and their ancestors struggling to come to terms with it. In that sense, Kentaro and Keiko are representative of modern Japan itself; they don't have to approve of their own history in order to sympathise with it. This is a great film, but it'll provoke a heated argument or two, a fact which it foreshadows in a night out that goes disastrously wrong.

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    • Trivia
      Hayao Miyazaki, who criticized the film for "trying to make a Zero fighter story based on a fictional war account that is a pack of lies" had months before released Le vent se lève (2013), a film about the designer of the same aircraft depicted in this film.
    • Goofs
      The correct title is The Eternal Zero not The Fighter Pilot.
    • Quotes

      US Navy Lookout: It's a Zero!

    • Connections
      Version of Eien no 0 (2015)
    • Soundtracks
      Hotaru
      Written by Keisuke Kuwata

      Performed by 'Sazan Ôru Sutâzu'

      Courtesy of Taishita Label Music/Victor Entertainment

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    • Release date
      • December 21, 2013 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Official sites
      • Hong Kong Official Site
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • The Fighter Pilot
    • Filming locations
      • Kagoshima, Japan
    • Production companies
      • Toho
      • Amuse
      • Amuse Soft
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $82,879,386
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    • Runtime
      • 2h 24m(144 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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