The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner (1981)
Synopsis
On August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki led the last Special Attack Force pilots across the Pacific, to crash into American ships. Thirty-five years later, the men who serviced the aeroplanes are still meeting up for their annual dinner. Now settled into civilian jobs - dentist, baker, taxi-driver, insurance salesman - and with children and grandchildren, they bemoan the decay of traditional Japanese values. Hard liquor is imbibed, toasts raised to the memory of the heroic dead, and old rivalries resurface. The survivors' dissatisfaction with post-war life comes to a head when, in a moment of drunken inspiration, Tokkotai the airline pilot decides on a symbolic gesture to show that the kamikaze spirit lives on.
Release Date: 1981-02-17
Runtime: 69 minutes
Director: Baz Taylor
Top Cast
- Peter Sallis as Shushin
- John Blythe as Kamiwashi
- Harold Goodwin as Shimpu
- Don Henderson as Tokkotai
- Richard Vernon as Makato
- Patricia Prior as Miss Tomishita
- Mary Maddox as Girl Singer
- Mark Penfold as Co-Pilot
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Original Music Composer(s): N/A
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