Kamikaze: An Untold History
2025•1h 30m•10.0•Released
DocumentaryWar
On the Pacific front, towards the end of World War II, Japan's imperial armed forces launched 'kamikaze' attacks - suicide missions by aircraft laden with bombs. It was a mad operation with no hope of returning alive, but the nation went wild, and the attacks continued for ten months, literally until the very last day of the war. Close to 4,000 Japanese airmen died, and nearly 7,000 Allied military personnel were killed, and thousands more were injured by the attacks. How could this happen? Utilising 15 years' worth of extensive interviews with US and Japanese World War II veterans, Takayuki Oshima’s film delves into the mechanism of how a crazed madness swept through an entire nation.
Director
Takayuki Oshima
Languages
English, Japanese
Studio
NHK
Cast
Togo Igawa
Self - Narrator (voice)
Tomokazu Kasai
Hayao Fujimoto
Douglas MacArthur
Archive
Emperor Hirohito of Japan
Archive
Yusuke Orita
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