Kamikaze: die for those we love (Ore wa, kimi no tame no koso Shini or iku) Kamikaze: die for those we love (2007)
The story begins in 1944. Given the increasingly desperate military situation of the Japanese forces in the Pacific, Vice Admiral Onishi decided to create a corps of suicide bombers, called Kamikazes , to attack American ships in the fleet against them crashing their planes loaded with bombs . The story centers on the head of one of the kamikaze units, Lieutenant Tabata , And Mrs. Take , the manager of a restaurant next to the airbase Chira, where they prepare the suicide pilots, who will narrate the history and concerns of these young people during the weeks prior to being sent combat.
Kamikaze, die for those we love is a recent Japanese production directed by Taku Shinjo a screenplay based on the book by Shintaro Ishishara , former governor of Tokyo, who collected the testimony of several drivers kamikaze with the cooperation of Take Torihama . This old woman was charged with a restaurant near Chira air base, where hundreds of suicide bombers set off bound for Okinawa during the final weeks of the war, with which he had the opportunity to personally address many of these young kamikaze pilots , and know personal stories, which formed the basis for the book that inspired Ishishara and stories that appear in the film.
Thus, directly inspired by the stories in the book, Kamikaze die for those we love offers a novel perspective that we consider when describing the motivations of the young Japanese pilots who accepted immolate themselves in an act of sacrifice and useless at that point in the war. In that sense, the film offers a portrait of the kamikazes that deviates from the topic of fans diametrically fighters, dehumanized and unfeeling, to show a more human portrait of them. Departing from the stereotype, the film shows a group of young people fresh from adolescence, with artistic, love and anxious about the fate of their relatives who were morally coerced and even forced by his superiors to missions suicide. Certainly a novel approach, which is quite rich from the historical point of view.
However, when developing the topic, in my view, the story does not end completely connecting with the audience. And this is mainly due to the dramatic part of the narrative, which occupies two thirds of the footage, it is quite irregular. Although there are some very successful dialogue scenes (for example, when the younger brother of one of the kamikaze naively asks this: "If you die ... Japan wins? "), in general, film sequences abuse discourse that are rather flat and repetitive. As for the war, it is remarkable the appearance of several fighter aircraft that appears genuine Ki-43 Oscar , and recreation of the attacks on the U.S. fleet by excellent computer-generated visual effects that give spectacular to the war of the story, although this is finally a little corseted, between the dramatic and protracted epilogue to the story, clearly you can spare a few minutes of footage.
In summary, Kamikaze, die for those we love is an interesting example of Japanese war movies, the main incentive is to offer the Japanese version of the conflict from a new perspective. It is a film of all round at the cinema, but it is a correct title bill and quite accomplished in the visual. Certainly pleased moviegoers of World War II.
Rating: 6 / 10
