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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Cast

Minori Terada

Him

Naoko Ohtani

The Girl

Yūnosuke Itō

Skipper

Hideyo Amamoto

Father of Him

Masumi Harukawa

Tanie Kitabayashi

Tatsuya Nakadai

Narrator

Ichirō Nakatani

Shoichi Ozawa

Chishū Ryū

Bookstore Man

Kunie Tanaka

Shinsuke Achiwa