ASSAULT ON THE PACIFIC: KAMIKAZE
aka FOR THOSE WE LOVE

Year: 2007
UK DVD: Metrodome Distribution
Cast: Toru Emoi, Kasuaka Furuhata, Cleve Gray
Director: Taku Shinjo
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
UK: 130 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains gory war violence
UK DVD Release Date: 25 April 2011

Synopsis

An epic account of true events, this is the unparalleled tale behind the legacy of the Kamikaze pilot, when the objective was not to survive, but to die in the name of honour.

In the final months of WWII, US naval forces expanded in the South West Pacific, triggering a series of sustained and devastating aerial attacks on Allied ships from the Japanese military. In a last ditch effort to defend the Empire, an elite air force unit named Special Attack Corps was formed with the sole mission to storm unsuspecting US carriers and ships from the skies, with catastrophic results.

With causalities in their thousands, this tale brings to life the enduring image of the Kamikaze pilot in one of the most intense and relentless attacks of 1945.