Alert! Quickly stand by!
Alert!
Hurry up! Hurry up!
Alert!
Hurry up!
Are you okay?
Yes.
On your positions!
Are you okay?
Yes.
Ito, pull yourself up!
Yes.
Alert!
Are we going to be okay?
Do not worry!
Commander.
Sub-lieutenant Namiki, pull yourself up!
Alert!
80 m under the surface, depth charges defense!
Don't move! Stay calm!
There's no problem.
Hard aport! Full speed ahead!
Hard aport!
Full speed ahead!
Are we being found?
Damn it! Not here!
Calm down!
(Sound of water measured noise level meter)
It seems they run out of depth charges.
How the enemy direction now?
They hovering just above us.
Above...
On the aft left side 30° two enemy ship has been found.
After put mark on our submarines, then they call other ship over.
Ah, this will be long fight.
Stop engines. Run silent.
We've been discovered by the enemy. Are you guys fine?
Yes.
Turn it down, or they will hear you.
We can only wait here quietly.
Radiator and fan can not be used, it will slowly become hot.
Oxygen will slowly reduce,
It will be for quite some time.
If you feel unwell contact medical soon, okay?
Yes...
Ito coming.
Sub-lieutenant Namiki, you dropped this.
Thanks.
Officer Ito, are the kaiten all right?
Kaiten (literal translation: "Return to the sky") were manned torpedoes and
suicide craft, used by the Imperial Japanese
I worry about it too.
Navy in the final stages of World War II.
I really want to go out and check them.
Yes.
This will be for a long time, you know.
Let's just lie down.
Okita!
How temperature now?
40° C.
Just like sleep in steam bath.
Namiki, throw a strike out!
Meiji University team Waseda University team
Go, Namiki!
What you think you're doing!
I thought the ball would strike.
Why not pitch a straight ball?! Why arbitrarily change strategy?!
Stop it.
Don't argue here!
You guys did well done!
Turn the tables!
You do know that my shoulder unable to throw a simple straight ball to win.
Don't make excuses!
When pitch linear ball like this, no need to use the strength of the wrist,
After that the ball won't rotate in straight line,
But in the end it still failed yet.
Because it is easy to hit, also it don't have speed.
But pitch the ball away from catcher, then like today's game it will easily hit.
That's why I want the opponent think I gonna pitch straight ball.
Threw the ball to his chest then suddenly strike.
Do you mean like drop the ball?
Wrong.
Well, it's like this, bent over the middle finger.
The index finger and ring finger on each other side.
See the batter directly then surely pitch linear ball that will keep rotate.
But on last minutes it will fall to catcher.
If you do it right, the ball will disappear in the blink.
As theory really work?
- Sawamura Eiji really pitched invisible curve ball.
- Sawamura Eiji was a Japanese professional baseball player.
A right-handed pitcher, he played in Japan for the Yomiuri Giants.
The ball seems flies on three sections. Go... go... go...
Nonsense!
- Sawamura is pither that even Babe Ruth couldn't hit.
- Babe Ruth was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons
in Major League Baseball (MLB) playing for three teams (1914–1935).
Are you at same level as him?!
You are still upset?
If he follows my instructions, we could win the game.
Here we go again.
Namiki holding pain injury on his shoulder.
You should consider it too.
Rather than doing baseball...
Isn't better to practice how to throw grenades?!
You are Kita the athletics player, right?!
I've already quit on athletics.
Were your feet had injury too?
It gets boring.
What you want to say?
Just because you quitted athletics, you want us to give up baseball too?
Six Baseball Universities, Autumn Games is called off, right?!
That's because there's movement from hostile countries.
So how about your marathon tournament? London Olympic also been canceled, right?!
You're blaming that to quit athletics?
Olympic...
Simply does not matter to me.
I gave up running because...
There's no way to run.
Dehydrate! I can't hold it anymore!
How long was this?
Three and half hour.
Why the enemy not give up yet?!
Chihara! Give me water!
Yes.
We've found them.
On the aft left side 20° there's three ships.
No, there's four.
It's coming.
Full speed, 10° right side, there's another enemy ship in action.
Depth charges attack.
Depth charges defense!
Damn it! Are we gonna die here even before we launch kaiten?!
Hey, quickly fix this!
Chihara, bring out more towel!
Yes.
We can't go deeper to 100 m?!
Yes, imppossible.
Kaiten safety depth limit is 80 m.
We can't dive deeper than this depth.
Until the last moment, keep sailing along.
Yes.
I don't want to die here.
Let's ask the captain to launch us out.
There's no other way. Let's use the kaiten to kill the enemy.
Wait, no matter how you think, that's just rush decision.
While the submarine moving on with speed of 30 knots,
How they gonna launch the kaiten.
So, it's okay for you to die here?
I definitely don't want it.
I'm sorry.
But could you all please be quite.
What happen?
The submarine will floating.
What?
How we gonna fight while floating up?
Listen!
The submarine will going up to depth of 40 m.
Will we be fine doing that?
Enemy set depth charge explosion on 80 m.
As long as we keep the radar on explosion,
we could avoid it until it explode all below.
Then we'll find a way to escape.
So we have to receive it either way?
Captain is god of submarine department.
- He is from Sanuki Province, so he have Konpira-sama with him.
- Konpira-sama is is a famous god of ships and voyages. The central
Konpira shrine is at Takamatsu (Sanuki Province) on the islands of Shikoku.
It will be fine. Leave it to us.
Micro-speed ahead!
Depth of 65 m.
Depth of 55 m.
At this rate, keep floating up.
The sound of the explosion came from below.
Are we being safe now?
On the aft right side 20° there's three enemy ship.
In addition, two enemy ship on the aft left side 30°.
Gradually move away.
They gonna keep chase us or not...
Now we can only rely on Konpira-sama.
Are you okay?
Hmm. Just went to empty my bladder.
October 21, 1943 Send-off ceremony for 25.000 drafted students at the Meiji Jingu
Gaien Stadium (now the National Olympic Stadium) before going to fight in World War II
Young Japanese Empires students.
Leave the school with enthusiastic, and embark on the journey.
Rush ahead full-force to the enemy.
Years of hard and rigorous learning and training,
will be dedicated to this glorious mission.
To come forward, wiped out a strong enemy.
Long live the Emperor! Long live! Long live!
Hey.
Welcome.
Master, there's empty seat?
Ah, just come in and try to find one.
Give us four cups of coffee.
Okay.
We're about to leave.
Hey, your clothes not wet?
You didn't come to the ceremony?
I already signed up to join the army.
There is no need to go Jingu Gaien Stadium.
Where you enroll?
Navy.
Rather than being forcibly ordered, I choose to voluntary on my own.
Today I just to taste this bad coffee before go.
Give a good fight.
When we win the war, you can participate on Olympic again.
There's no way I'm back home alive.
Maybe I should be a soldier too.
Become a soldier is not the only way to make contribution to the country.
We as college students have our own mission.
Because of this, up to now we have not been given notice.
It seems I made a mistake going to collage.
I simply can't stay still and just reading at school.
But I can't become a formal soldier.
Not just me, you too Gouhara, Tabakura, also Namiki.
Listen, Obata.
Last month when I return home, I went visit my junior high school,
Met former teachers there.
- Later I found the 4th and 5th grade* classroom was empty,
- The old Japanese educational system 6-5-3-3 system (6 years of
elementary school, 5 years of junior high school, 3 years of senior
high school and 3 years of University). It revised after World War II
On the table of empty seat there's tag called "expedition".
They have become Naval Flight Preparatory trainee.
They just junior high students.
There's a lot student younger than us already prepare face the battle.
If my right-man catcher gone,
how I could create my magic ball.
Magic ball?
You still holding on that hope.
There's no more games.
You're not answering my question.
Are you going to walk out as my partner even before the magic ball complete?
Kind of ball you simply can not pitch.
We've never know if we don't try.
Just give up!
There's no such thing like magic ball.
If you have so much energy thinking about it, better used it for the country.
Now Japan is at war with US!
I will join the army.
Even I have to die, I will die as brave man.
You...
just because few simple sweet words ready to give up baseball?
Baseball is just a childish game.
Childish game?
Are you seriously saying that?!
Then how about the war?
Just try to take away each other lands. Is that so great?!
Are you too, seriously saying that?!
Stop it!
You guys don't know who's gonna hear it.
I need to think it by myself.
Master, you will get in trouble too playing Bolero.
Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece
composed by Maurice Ravel (France, 1875 – 1937)
France also our enemy.
If the military found it wrong,
I will tell them that Ravel is Germany.
[Nakano, Tokyo]
Sachiko, welcome home.
I'm back.
Brother!
Hey, you should reply "welcome back".
We have a guest.
Wah, you're coming.
Minako-san just went from Jingu Gaien Stadium, too.
What? When it raining?
I was searching for you Koji-san, but didn't see you.
So I thought come here to say hi.
Your clothes must become wet.
We asked her to change.
Minako-san wearing the dress is pretty, right?!
Mom's dress when she was young.
It's been long time since wearing skirts, feel little uncomfortable.
Welcome back.
You must be get wet!
Hurry up change the clothes, or you will get cold.
Thank you, Mom.
Minako-san, we will eat dinner soon.
Yes.
Sachi, help me.
Yes.
Those taro...
Father's students planted in the school.
Well, although it's small, but taste good.
There are so many kinds of taro.
The one given by government not sweet at all.
Only appear in big size.
But nothing inside.
Are you talking about me?
No one said that.
Koji, there's more if you want.
No, I'm full.
You're not look happy.
Are you got cold?
Father.
What happen?
I'm going to volunteer.
Say it one more time.
I want to join the Navy.
There's no other choice.
I think I shoud go.
But, you haven't receive notice yet.
This thing no need to hurry.
The result still the same, it will come eventually.
The college will send the notice.
Father, it's this okay?
Think about it wisely.
Then your own good will decide.
Tea...
could you pour another one?
Navy surely fit for you, Koji-san.
Especially those white naval uniform.
Actually whether Army or Navy is fine by me,
But I got feeling that Navy treatment their comrade better.
However, you're immediately going on front-line, right?!
Well, first Marine regiment will take 4 months.
To learn the basics as a soldier.
Then become Navy reserve student, if you passed the test.
You can enter a specialized technical school.
Navy reserve student?
Student who passed the test, have prospective become officer.
Reserve. Meaning become spare ones.
So, after graduating from school, then the front-line?
Because Japan start losing the war, they do need more troops.
Japan is losing?
No, but it's impossible to win every battle.
Koji-san.
What?
Could you give me this photo?
What you going to do with that?
I will put this photo on my desk and sing to it,
for encouraging you, Koji-san.
What song?
Title: Aa Kurenai no Chi wa Moyuru (ああ紅の血は燃ゆる)
Lyrics: Nomura Toshio (野村俊夫)
♪ Hana mo tsubomi no waka sakura Covered with flower buds cherry
Composer: Akemoto Kyousei (明本京静)
♪ Goshaku no inochi hissagete Carry on tenacious of life
♪ Kuni no daijini junzuru wa To take care of the country
♪ Warera gakuto no menboku zo is our responsibility as the students
♪ Aa kurenai no chi wa moyuru Ah, my red crimson blood is burning
Mom, I put the rest here.
Hmm.
♪ Go ni tsuzuke to ani no koe Voice of my brothers keep on continue
♪ Ima koso fude o nageuchi te Now is the time rushing to the front
♪ Shouri yuruga nu sei... Grab the victory without...
Tok! Tok!
Mom said Minako-san's grandma will worry,
she should go home soon.
I will accompany you to the station.
Your mother gave it to me.
Hmm?
Lipstick.
I'm still shy to use it.
This morning when I step out,
I said I might visit Koji-san's home,
then grandma told me something.
Hmm... what was it?
Koji-san is "national treasure".
What she mean by that?
That's why I should not like you very much.
My grandfather was killed in the Russo-Japanese War.
Maybe she don't want me have same lonely and tough life as her.
But..
I don't care even I get scold by her.
Mina-chan...
(Air Raid Sirens)
Come with me, hurry up!
Go inside the shelter!
Come on, hurry inside!
Come! Run quickly into shelter!
Hurry up! Hurry up! Go inside!
Hurry up!
Excuse me.
The cook told me to send some fruit over.
- Please eat. - Thank you.
Please eat.
Thank you.
Captain, sound of the source disappear.
The enemy has gone.
Depth of 18 m, quietly floating.
Floating!
Down!
Okay, go to suface!
Go to surface! Continue to up!
We listen! Now submarine point inspection!
The submarine have successfully evaded enemy destroyer!
We made it!
Hurry check up the kaiten.
Yes.
Chihara! Chihara!
We made it!
Chihara!
Yes.
Quickly help me check the kaiten.
Go!
Tamano, act quickly!
Sub-lieutenant Namiki, let's go up and check the kaiten.
Okay.
Open the hatch!
Yes.
Aargh...
How is it? Is there something unusual?
No problem on the surface.
I will check inside.
Captain Kita.
Fourth boat severely damaged.
Hey, how about second kaiten?
There's no problem.
My kaiten's surface also okay. Now checking inside.
How about first one?
There's no problem.
Why?
Why my kaiten...
Chihara, do something.
Chihara, fix my kaiten!
Fix my kaiten....
Fix my kaiten!
Yokosuka Navy's Antisubmarine School
Salute!
Once there was rumor going around.
But today we convened all over to covince everyone.
Japan front-line officers and soldiers are courageously fighting now.
But facing the enemy strong resistance, the battle field has more deterioration.
In order to cope with this adverse situation,
we developed a special weapons to annihilate the enemy.
This special weapons will deal the enemy a devastating blow.
Because of its nature, it involves a high degree of danger.
Therefore, we need a fine soldier,
and a dynamic strong desire pilot.
Those who wish to go into the battle and aboard this weapon,
please write your name and draw two circles.
Those with no preference, just name and one circle.
If you do not wish to volunteer, write only your name.
Despite the country critical moment, we looking forward to your contribution.
That's all. Finish.
Salute!
From now on, you have two hours to consider.
Those who want to volunteer, fill out the paper and put into this box.
There is a lot of time!
You can think elsewhere, go to the living room or to the toilet.
This special weapons,
will deal the enemy a devastating blow.
Because of its nature, it involves a high degree of danger.
♪ Hana mo tsubomi no waka sakura Covered with flower buds cherry
♪ Goshaku no inochi hissagete Carry on tenacious of life
♪ Kuni no daijini junzuru wa To take care of the country
♪ Warera gakuto no menboku zo is our responsibility as the students
♪ Aa kurenai no chi wa moyuru Ah, my red crimson blood is burning
♪ Hana mo tsubomi no waka sakura Covered with flower buds cherry
♪ Goshaku no inochi hissagete Carry on tenacious of life
Namiki!
Ball!
Strike! However, nothing change!
I'm only come to Navy as candidate.
I could not draw a circle.
Form ranks!
Hikari Base Yamaguchi Prefecture
Ready!
Turn left... now!
Ready! Run!
They said kaiten really like torpedoes.
How we could ride it?!
How about one hit launch?
Shut up! Concentrate on training!
Too slow! Increase your speed!
Stop... now!
We going through the factory, keep it quiet!
Keep on the line!
Yes.
Stop... now!
Turn right... now!
Next you all...
going to observe the kaiten.
Turn left... now!
Later you all going to aboard this bow boat.
"The return toward heaven" will turn the situation of the war.
That why we called it "kaiten".
There's 1.6 tons of explosives in front, loaded inside.
It could blow and sink the aircraft carrier.
This kaiten can make dozens, even hundreds fleet of enemy ships buried in the seabed.
Chief Officer Toyama will explain the details.
Lenghth of this is 14.75 m, with trunk diameter of 1 m.
Single wheel, 550 hp (horse power).
Normal speed 12 knots for 78 km range.
Maximum speed is 30 knots (56 km/h).
Power supply based on the renowned type 93 oxygen torpedo.
With pure oxygen instead of air for fuel combustion,
it will not leaving traces on the sea.
This is the world's first high-performance weapons.
However, due to the US technology of radar, to use radio waves to detect objects.
It makes torpodes war hard to control.
That's why we made an improvement type 93 power supply.
With human control inside it,
not only direction, depth, speed can be changed.
But also can avoid enemy's detection, and launch it to enemy become possible.
I will say the most important thing is...
This kaiten there's no way to escape.
That's all!
Complete observation!
Kaiten is device that using pure oxygen and oil.
Therefore will produce a powerful high-pressure steam than usual.
This high-pressure steam will be the piston in motion.
The disadvantage is high heat generated when the ignition,
will cause the piston and cylinder melting accident.
In order to prevent accidents,
gradually increase the concentration of oxygen and oil is needed.
So instead of inhibit the combustion of the fuel,
reduce the speed 3 knots, normal condition reached and kaiten will stop.
Simply put it, once kaiten already launched...
Until it hit the enemy ship explosion, it can't be stopped.
Of course this propulsion can't be rotated in the opposite direction.
In other words, kaiten can't go backwards to the rear.
It can only move forward.
Ensign Namiki.
Ensign is one of Naval ranks of the Japanese Empire during World War II
My name is Ito.
You are the one who sitting inside the kaiten, right?!
What you need from me?
That... Ensign is...
Meiji University baseball pitcher Namiki Koji, right?!
Do you know me?
Of course.
Through the radio I keep following your winning game on Summer Koshien.
Koshien is name of stadium where National
High School Baseball Championship held every summer.
When I was in Junior High School, I saw Ensign's heroic game at Jingu Stadium.
The result complete 3-0 versus Keio team,
Totally mind blowing.
You like baseball?
Very much.
I played first base in Junior High,
Also ever had clean-up batted.
Really.
Be able to play in Koshien was my dream.
To see you is an honor.
I'm sorry to bother your learning time.
You are called Officer Ito, right?!
Yes.
Other time, let's talk about baseball more.
Yes.
Also I was major in literary,
I having trouble trying to understand the structure of those devices.
Next time, please teach me.
I will do anything I can.
I will go now.
Fourth Unit First Base Special Corps
Start the electric vertical steering gear.
Open the operating empty plug valve.
Open the vertical steering gear valve.
Open the vertical steering gear exhaust valve.
Open the lubricants guide valve.
You won't able to set sail.
Huh?
You forgot to close vertical steering gear escape valve.
You will die even before it hit the enemy.
Once more from the start.
Yes.
Start the electric vertical steering gear.
Open the operating empty plug valve.
Open the vertical steering gear valve.
Open the vertical steering gear exhaust valve.
Close the vertical steering gear escape valve.
Open the lubricants guide valve. visit: shokomovies.blogspot.com
Hand rudder control... visit: shokomovies.blogspot.com
on the center.
Open the depth guide valve.
Depth gauge, no problem.
Depth 0 m.
Regulator 5 km.
Height 0 m.
Open the fuel intermediate valve.
Starting the valve...
Ah, that's too rough to start the valve.
That way could cause the explosion, you will be finished by then.
Listen carefully, there's pure oxygen inside.
This point should clearly put in your head.
Yes.
Okay, once more from the start.
Yes.
Start the electric vertical steering gear.
Open the operating empty plug valve.
Start the electric vertical steering gear.
Open the operating empty plug valve.
The longitudinal steering gear exhaust... no, not right.
Open the vertical steering gear valve.
Open the vertical steering gear exhaust valve.
Close the vertical steering gear escape valve.
Open the lubricants guide valve.
Hand rudder control... on the center...
Ensign Namiki.
I thought I would found you here.
What about that?
With my fellow comrade from Tokyo, both of us secretly bought it here.
I want to catch Ensign Namiki's pitch.
Can we see the ball in this moonlight?
Leave it to me.
It's really been a long time.
Please don't pitch the fast ball!
Makes me nervous.
My shoulder had been injured.
I couldn't pitch the ball as fast as my pitch in Jingu games.
So now I have to challenge myself the new balls.
Then I will catch your new balls.
It's not complete yet.
Ah!
You are Kita!
So, you're really Namiki. I heard you were assign here.
When was you get here?
I come yesterday from Kinosuke.
So, we are on same mission?!
Right, as kaiten pilot.
How the training going on? Try to control kaiten is difficult, right?!
Do it right!
Hey, Kita!
What?
Now you're still keep on running?
I only running because...
as a soldier I have to keep my body ready to face the mission.
Listen, I'm a Navy Sub-lieutenant in here.
Beware of your language.
Do you know Sub-lieutenant Kita?
Yeah... we were classmates in University.
Sub-lieutenant Kita went on mission last month.
But his kaiten unable to launch due to
mechanical problems, then he end up return here.
Really... he already went on mission.
Listen!
From now on is the most critical thing.
With the enemy on one km far away, through periscope make last observation.
After measure the final position and velocity,
From a depth of 4 m,
Hit the central part of enemy ship with full speed.
In other words, after the final observation finished,
it will depends on your own judgement to set timing and speed.
This training, sooner or later, will give you sense on what the biggest problem.
With the fuel consumption, the boat will gradually become lighter.
Slowly it will lose its depth.
So while you need regularly monitor the oxygen meter,
You also need to inject the sea water, adjust the buoyancy to keep floating.
If you failed do this step, then kaiten head will be go up and down.
Commonly known as the Dolphin Movement.
If the head out of water, the enemy will found it.
On the contrary, if its go down too deep,
kaiten will no longer able to move.
That way you just wait to die.
IDIOT!
Don't dazing around!
Didn't you really hear me?!
Yes!
Report, Ensign Namiki will depart on aboard training.
Using unit no.35, from sea base to other base.
Speed limits to 20 knots.
Major training project is to set sail and stop.
Increase and decrease in speed also how secretly sneak into enemy area.
Training time 30 minutes.
Estimation complete time is 08.30 am. Finish.
This is your first time.
Yes.
No fellow passenger on training!
Yes.
Be more cautious!
No matter what happen, do not panic!
Yes.
Go!
When the hacth is closed I'll give signal "gong-gong-gong".
If there's no problem with the kaiten, another "gong-gong-gong".
Then you will reply with signal "gong-gong-gong" too.
After 10 seconds, we will release the boat.
Start the electric vertical steering gear.
Open the operating empty plug valve.
Open the vertical steering gear valve.
Open the vertical steering gear exhaust valve.
Close the vertical steering gear escape valve.
Open the lubricants guide valve.
Full right on rudder!
Full right on rudder.
Full left on rudder!
Full left on rudder.
Back on rudder!
Hand rudder control on center.
Open the depth guide valve,
Okay.
Depth gauge, no problem. Depth 0 m.
Regulator...
5 km.
Height 0 m.
Open the fuel intermediate valve.
Okay.
Open the starting valve.
Okay.
The bow orientation of 180°.
Confirm after the hatch is closed.
Send signal to launch the boat. Answer the signal!
I heard to signal.
For now keep concetrate on the boat.
Be careful. I pray for your safety.
(♪ Humming Maurice Ravel's Bolero)
Turn right after reached Sejima base. Full right on rudder after 30 seconds.
Then full right on rudder after 50 seconds.
Floating...
Report, there's no problem to launch unit no.35
Keep your eyes on the kaiten!
Yes.
5...4...3...2...1... launch!
Pull the the operating empty plug valve... or vertical steering gear valve...
Starting valve?
Regulators section...
Fast! Too fast!
What he is doing suddenly!
He might set the regulator too high.
Catch up with him!
What's wrong with him?! Quickly go dive down!
Okay, I went dive down.
Keep this up for 5 minutes...
Depth of 15 m? This is bad, very bad!
Ah, this is bad!
Ah, Dolphin Movement!
This is dangerous.
Turn full right! Full speed!
Ah, finally go up!
Okay.
There's no Sejima base?
Strange.
Was the direction might be wrong?
Okay, let's turn right.
Found the kaiten!
On the right, 70°, sailing towards the base.
Full right on rudder!
Reaching Sejima Base in 3 minutes.
Okay!
It's about to hit!
Idiot!
Resound gunshot two times!
Yes.
Stop? It's a stop signal!
Aaagh!
Hey.
Report, Ensign Namiki has completed kaiten control training.
Don't make us worry!
Just a little bit more it will cause your death!
You damn fool!
I'm really sorry.
Damn!
Only practice once or twice, how could you remember it all.
Aaargh!
Mom!
What's the matter?
It's me!
I was just thinking of you.
I thought this is a dream.
Fool...
Welcome back.
Hmm.
Hurry come inside.
Okay.
You look so fine.
I will follow you soon.
Hmm.
Brother, you look handsome in those uniform.
Eh... you really grown a lot.
Brother too.
I won't grow taller than this.
Eh... you do become taller.
What you guys doing?
You must be surprised everywhere were burned.
Shimada-san's, Tsumi-san's, Kogure-san's house all been burned down.
Hmm... bombing raids really frightening.
Right, I'm need to send a telegram.
To who?
Of course for Minako-san.
Do you know, Minako-san's house also got hit from bombing raids.
So she live temporarily with relatives in Hachioji now.
Mom, please give the money to send a telegram.
Hey, Sachi...
Sachi!
What?
Brother has only one night at home.
Heh... one night only?!
I could only come to Tokyo for a day.
That's why you don't have to call Mina-chan and...
On the contrary, that's exactly why we should call her.
If we don't notice her, she certainly will hate you.
I'm going.
So we have suiton soup for dinner.
Suiton is soup containing dumplings made from of wheat flour
Sorry, even when you specially come back home...
We don't have white rice to cook.
I already asked everywhere to buy some, but they said no.
Here.
Brother, this is for you.
Ah, Obata's glove.
It's a momento... of Obata-san.
What?
The transport ship he was riding,
got hit by US submarine torpedoes.
The ship carried about 1,000 Japanese army,
Obata-san is one of them.
Early last month, his sister come here...
Said "cause my brother really like Namiki as friend",
"He must be hope Namiki will keep it"
Strike! However, nothing change!
He was really a considerate kind boy.
Always grinning happily.
I'm only come to Navy as candidate.
I could not draw a circle.
Hey, let's just eat for now.
I wonder what happen with Minako-san.
The telegram should already been sent to her.
Is there any air bombing raids in Hachioji?
I listen news on radio, seems there haven't been one lately.
Recently there's air raid sirens every night,
We could not even change to pajamas and have a good sleep.
Always stay alert with this clothes.
Brother, why don't we go to Hachioji?!
It's better not to meet.
Why?
Did you lose your feeling for Minako-san?
That's not the case... I love her.
So why...
No matter what happens you do want to meet with her, right?!
It's so strange.
Since you come home, you don't care whether meet her or not.
Sachi, Koji is soldier now.
The one who dedicated his life to the country.
He don't know when it's time to give his life.
That why...
It would be better not to meet.
That's exactly why!
If this's really the last time, then they should do anything to meet each other.
Just because you going to die, you just give up already.
If my lover did those thing...
I will loudly scolded him, "you betrayed me".
That's just nonsense.
Don't you fell sorry for Minako-san?!
Father, it's Koji.
Hmm.
Father, this is the watch that you gave me before.
Turn it back to you.
It'll be a waste if I keep it.
You really going?
I must do it for Obata's sake.
But also to protect you, Father, Mom, Sachi,
and watch everyone's back from the enemy.
When said the enemy, you mean they are US and UK people?
China, France, Netherlands, all are our enemies.
Have you ever seen how the enemy looks like?
When Father in junior high school,
there is this American teacher called McBain.
A fine man, have great sense of humor.
This is not about each individual thing. This is a war between the countries.
Koji.
I wonder what they mean to called it country.
Country is the state.
Like Japan, the United States,
France, the United Kingdom...
You don't have to return it.
Keep it.
Take it as amulet.
I will the one who tell your Mother.
So it's true. You're really going...
For the country's sake.
No. 5 line, from Tokyo to Osaka, will departure soon.
All train passengers please enter through the nearest entrance.
I will going.
Keep your body healthy.
Where is Minako-san...
I already told the place and time when you go on telegram.
Maybe something happen.
I will search for her.
Mom, I will write you a letter.
Yes, you must write to me.
If we not received your letter, I would be very worry about you.
Mother!
Brother!
Excuse me.
You're mean. Why leaving before meet me?!
That's not what I mean to.
Mina-chan.
I'm very worry. Could you tell me...
There's this headlines appears on daily newspapers.
You're not joining Kamikaze team, right?!
Kamikaze Special Attacks Coprs were suicide
attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan
Ah, is that true?!
The army information is secret, but I'll be fine.
You will take some boat?
So it's not dangerous?
I feel more comfortable now.
There was labor mobilization in the factory.
That's why I could not saw you last night.
We will meet again, right?!
Yes.
Promise me, you must inform me next you're back home.
I love you, Mina-chan!
How the crews hanging?
Joking around and playing trump card.
One day we will encounter enemy soon.
Then we would command kaiten to attack.
Honestly, it won't be easy. Because we know that they gonna die.
They certainly have parents and siblings too.
I don't have children, so I don't really understand how parent's feeling,
But I keep thinking they are dear to me.
Ah... this feels good.
Hey, Okita.
You haven't eat anything since the morning.
You just ruin yourself.
Leave him be uncomfortable.
To comfort him this time, just adding salt on the wound.
Rise up!
What so fun about keep looking a mirror like that?
I feel more and more like my mother.
How about your father?
My father's face looks like a crab.
I really don't want to look like him.
Think about it, my mother is a beauty.
It's good thing my face resemble her a lot.
But I gradually become a man who looks like my mother.
You're a fool...
I don't care who you resembles the most, stop this useless conversation.
Hey, Okita, you pretty good at singing.
Sing a song.
Oh... right.
I miss hearing you sing.
Sing! This is an order!
Yes.
I will sing.
Okay, great, Okita!
Title: Longing for Home (誰か故郷を想わざる)
Composer: Koga Masao (古賀政男)
♪ Hana tsumamu nobe ni hi wa ochite Gathering flowers in the field at sunset
Singer: Kirishima Noboru (霧島昇)
Lyrics: Saijo Yaso (西條八十)
♪ Minna de kata o gumi nagara Our arms around each others’ shoulders
♪ Uta o utatta kaeri michi We sang on the way home
♪ Osananajimi no ano tomo kono tomo The many friends surrounding my childhood
♪ Aaaa... tare ka kokyou o omowazaru Oh, can’t help but think of my old home
♪ Hitori no ane ga totsugu yoru ni The evening that my sister get married
Those guys singing along.
♪ Ogawa no kishi de samishi sa ni Lonely at the shore of the creek
Hometown...
They could not go back home.
Even for us there's no guarantee we return home safely.
♪ Naita namida no natsukashi sa Fond tears I shed so dearly
That's true.
Because Konpira-sama's blessing, we could stay live until now...
♪ Osananajimi no ano yama kono yama The hills and creeks in my childhood
♪ Aaaa... tare ka kokyou o omowazaru Oh, can’t help but think of my old home
Captain.
♪ To ni ame no furu yoru wa At rainy nights in the city
Everyone stand by!
Enemy on the right 10°, length 6000 m.
♪ Namida ni mune... Tears stain my...
Everyone on your position!
Enemy on the right 10° from length 6000 m!
Prepare for Kaiten release!
Finally here!
Prepare for Kaiten release!
Let's go!
Pilot into the boat!
Matsuura, replace me.
Yes.
Okita.
I'm glad I could hear your singing for the last time.
Don't give up. Lift your spirit up.
Farewell.
I definitely will follow you all later.
Let's go.
Thank you for taking care of me until now.
I pray for your success.
Thank you.
I'm really glad I could meet you.
We also talked a lot about baseball.
Can you hear me clearly, Namiki?
Sub-lieutenant Namiki, can you hear us?
Very clear.
Prepare for set sail!
First boat, ready for set sail! Okay!
Second boat, ready for set sail! Okay!
Third boat, ready for set sail! Okay!
The enemy is a large transport ship bow.
From the right 70° from distance 5000 m speed ​​of 14 knots.
An azimuth of 100°.
Latitude of 290°.
Speed of 20 knots for 12 minutes.
Target is a large transport ship bow.
Only one ship... who will go?
First boat will be sent.
Lieutenant Kita, wish you bring victory.
First boat, wish you bring victory.
Kita...
First boat set sail!
Go!
First boat set sail! Go!
Kita...
What happen? Answer me, Kita!
Lieutenant Kita, please answer!
Set sail...
Failed.
First boat, set sail failed.
Got it! First boat, set sail failed!
Captain, please let me go! Captain!
Second boat set sail! Go!
Mother...
Aaaargh!
Target hit confirmed!
Captain! Please tell me the next target!
Enemy transport ship was sank.
There's no more enemy?!
Captain, third boat want to search for the enemy.
Let him calm down. Attack mission has ended.
Tell Kita and Namiki to return to submarine.
From now keep the transport drainage tube work.
Down!
I have something I want to ask you.
What's happen?
If it's about kaiten, I will listen.
Please change your kaiten with me.
Don't do something stupid.
Then give me your pity.
We could force kaiten to accommodate two people.
Let me go along with you.
Keep your sense!
That's just equal to die in vain.
You can proudly strike back on the next mission.
Too late.
What do you mean?
Japan is losing.
So there won't be many opportunity to attack.
When the war come to the end,
It will be just living in disgrace, already went
on missions twice and still returned alive.
Later on how I'm suppose to face my subordinate, my superior...
People at my hometown too.
I'm begging you.
Just do it as your sympathy.
You're really strange.
Keep your head up!
Now is my only chance to become war hero!
War hero?
Being on Special Attack Corps is the highest honor.
I could become a hero.
Do you really want to achive that?!
I was raised in poor tenant farming, not like you.
So doesn't matter how, I must providing my family.
I was became a marathon runner for this purpose too.
However, those dream got shattered.
Dream?
Now my only way is become the war hero.
I'm begging you.
Kita, calm down.
Calm down and think about it clearly.
That way it'll be same as suicide.
Is sucidal person a war hero?!
It's wrong, right?!
Remember what for we go through such hard work on kaiten training.
Only to have useless death?
Kita!
It's wrong, right?!
Altar for:
Yasukichi Sakuma Pilot of second unit
Found the enemy ships!
Everyone on your positions!
On your positions!
Hurry! Hurry!
Hurry up!
Hurry! Hurry!
Hurry up!
Prepare for kaiten!
Pilot into the boat!
Prepare for kaiten! Pilot into the boat!
I will go.
Third boat, Namiki here.
The enemy is a fleet of 5 ships bow.
From the right 25° with distance 8000 m.
Wait for my command before start set sail.
Start speed on 12 knots.
Azimuth of 90°, latitude of 170°.
Keep speed of 20 knots for 14 minutes.
Namiki.
Any last words?
Namiki!
Thank you for bring me safe until now.
I wish for you all have peaceful life.
Third boat, ready for set sail!
Third boat, ready for set sail! Okay!
Third boat set sail! Go!
Namiki!
Could you set sail?
Answer it, Namiki!
Third boat, please answer!
Failed to launch!
We've been discovered by the enemy! Abort the attack!
Order Namiki to go out from kaiten and return here immediately!
We've been discovered by the enemy! Abort the attack!
Sub-lieutenant Namiki, your ball...
What are you laughing at!
I'm sorry!
After Sub-lieutenant Namiki mission failed,
the kaiten attack mission was suspended.
We've been ordered to return to Hikari Base.
On the way return, in the abundance surface of sea water...
We passed by the battleship Yamato which float to Okinawa.
They have mission called operation "Ten-ichi-gō" (Heaven One) is...
Without aircraft to cover them,
We sadly giving last respect as they rushly go for suicide attack.
Hey...
Back in the base, Sub-lieutenant Namiki has been treated like a sinner.
"How dare he come back alive"
Those rude and unreasonable eyes looked at Sub-lieutenant Namiki,
Makes me very upset.
I'm the one who caused Sub-lieutenant Namiki failed to die in mission.
But he didn't even said it was my mistake that he come back alive.
Sub-lieutenant Namiki.
I'm feeling very complex.
Let's play catch-ball.
Obata's Glove
Sub-lieutenant.
Ito, when the war come to end what you going to do?
I will become a teacher,
Return to my high school and teach the kids to play baseball.
You want to to Koshien. That's good one.
German already surrendered.
Yes.
Japan will be losing too.
Why would you say that?
Have you ever seen what the enemy look like?
No.
We label them "the enemy" but...
Even the US sailors love to play baseball. They
also have family and lovers waiting for them.
Sinking the enemy ship means take away that from them.
Sorry.
Sub-lieutenant...
You're not really thinking that,
Because Japan will losing soon, so you don't need to launch kaiten.
The time when Japan lose the war, I would already be dead.
Hey, pass the ball over.
But we created kaiten as special weapons to defend the country.
To protect the country, to win the war that's the purpose for driving the kaiten.
Don't you think so?
That's impossible.
So what for Sub-lieutenant Namiki doing this?
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I will die with intend to convey others the meaning of "kaiten".
This special weapon called the human torpedo,
There's a real person part of the weapon,
I will die for people to understand these sad facts.
That's enough for me.
This is just my personal reason.
Next, I will change the pitch.
Hey, did you see that?
It was curved!
Yes.
That's it! That's my magic ball!
Yes!
Ito, that was a magic ball!
This is my long time dream!
This happened on the next day...
The second attack mission is finalized.
Soon there was joint training.
If the he wasn't joint training, probably he still...
Sub-lieutenant Namiki makes a practice run even though he had fever.
On August 15th, 1945.
Japan surrendered to the Allies unconditionally.
It was already too late.
Later in September of the same year...
Makurazaki typhoon swept away all the cities of the Seto Inland Sea.
Hurry up!
Come on! Let's go!
Namiki-san.
Namiki-san!
Why?!
Why?! Why you have to died?!
Probably because I will lost conscious soon...
Outside is sunny day or already night time.
Actually what kind of color the skies have.
Keep thinking of these things in my mind...
Ito-kun, on the last mission I was hit you.
I feel very guilty.
Truthfully, at that time I feel relief.
I who doesn't have determination to die,
actually I was really scared.
When I looked at your smiling face,
Feel as if you see through what in my heart.
That's why who I really want to hit is myself.
I'm sorry.
When I was trying keep my conscious,
I don't even realize what I have been written.
Mom, the ocean is me now.
When you see the blue quiet sea, that is me.
Sachi...
Grow up quickly and healthy.
Brother will always looking for you.
Father...
Your beard is distracting.
Mina-chan...
I'm now in my young golden age.
I dedicate my youth to you.
Here is a request I have for you...
I would like you to see the things I could not see.
Such as the beauty of today's sunset.
Such as the glittering of the summer sea.
Such as the redness of a persimmon that changed color.
Such as the Nakano district streets covered in snow.
I would like you to see those instead of me.
Then after a year...
I want you to forget about me.
I would like you to find a good person and have overflowing happiness.
I want you to live, keep living...
and until you tired of hearing it, live!
Ohzu-shima, Yamaguchi Prefecture
Who you guys think will win in final of Nippon Professional Baseball?
Chiba Lotte, definitely Chiba Lotte team.
Refer to Chiba Lotte Marines are a professional baseball team in Japan's
Ah... really want to see the game!
Pacific League based in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, and owned by the Lotte.
So envy Matsui and Ichiro can go.
[Kaiten Memorial Museum]
Ito, that was a magic ball!
This is my long time dream!
♪ Even now when I have lost your smile I loved
♪ 大好きな ほほえみを 失った今でも ♪ Daisuki na hohoemi o ushinatta ima demo
Ebizo Ichikawa as Koji Namiki
♪ My heart remembers your warm hands
Yusuke Iseya as Katsuya Kita
Juri Ueno as Minako Narumi
♪ 心が覚えてる 温かいあなたの手 ♪ Kokoro ga oboeteru atatakai anata no te
Shun Shioya as Nobuo Ito
♪ Along with the writing you left behind
Shuuji Kashiwabara as Yasukichi Sakuma (Kaiten Pilot 2nd)
♪ 残された 文字とともに ♪ Nokosare ta moji totomoni
Mitsunori Isaki as Hiroyuki Okita (Kaiten Pilot 4th)
Anna Odaka as Sachiyo Namiki
Meiji Baseball Team: Yuki Kuroda as Obata Hiroyuki
Hirayama as Gouhara Kenta Kiritani as Tabakura Yasuhito Shimao as Master
♪ In the sea sparkling the same as those days
Yasunari Takeshima Masahiro Kiyota Hiroshi Kamiyama Fujirou Tamura
Submarine Crew: Tsubasa Nakamura Koushou
♪ あの頃と変わらずに きらめく海には ♪ Ano koro to kawara zu ni kirameku umi ni wa
Yamamoto Katsutaka Furuhata Kyota Inoue Yuta Kawasaka MakotoSakamoto
Toshiyuki Nagashima as Captain Baba (Hikari Base)
♪ Your youth that never return sleeps forever
Minoru Tanaka as Commader Toda (Submarine)
Kazuya Takahashi as Lieutenant Kenzaki (Hikari Base)
♪ 戻らない青春が いつまでも眠ってる ♪ Modora nai seishun ga itsu made mo nemutteru
Sei Hiraizumi as School Principal Sato
♪ Every person from the moment of their birth
Teruyuki Kagawa as Captain Kashima (Submarine)
♪ 人は皆生まれ来た 瞬間からもうすでに ♪ Hito wa mina umareki ta toki kara mō sudeni
Yuuko Kotegawa as Mitsue Namiki (Mother)
♪ Already destined to return to this sea
Tomokazu Miura as Toshiaki Namiki (Father)
♪ この海へ還ること 決められているけど ♪ Kono umi e kaeru koto kimerare te iru kedo
♪ For your sake who's dream burned out half done
♪ 夢なかば燃え尽きた あなたのぶんまで ♪ Yume nakaba moetsuki ta anata no bun made
♪ I will keep my promise to go on living
♪ 生きてゆく約束を 守るから見ていてね ♪ Iki te yuku yakusoku o mamoru kara mite ite ne
♪ If there's a happiness left for me to grasp
♪ 託された幸せを つかむことがもし ♪ Takusare ta shiawase o tsukamu koto ga moshi
♪ I will looking for it as you wish
♪ あなたの願いなら それを探してみるわ ♪ Anata no negai nara sore o sagashi te miru wa
♪ Lonely and missing you in the tearful night
♪ 淋しくて恋しくて 泣きそうな夜には ♪ Sabishiku te koishiku te naki sō na yoru ni wa
♪ Please come see me and hold me even in a dream
♪ 会いに来て抱きしめて 幻でいいから ♪ Ai ni ki te dakishime te maboroshi de ii kara
♪ Someday this feelings will return to you
♪ いつの日かその胸に 戻ってゆけると ♪ Itsu no hi ka sono mune ni modotte yukeru to
♪ Believing that today's evening calm is also beautiful
♪ 信じればまた今日も 夕凪が美しい ♪ Shinjire ba mata kyō mo yūnagi ga utsukushii
- Theme Song: Henshin (返信) - Composer and Lyrics: Mariya
♪ This letter that you can't read, but even so let me write it
Takeuchi (竹内まりや) Arrangement: Tatsuro Yamashita Perform
by: Mariya Takeuchi (竹内まりや) Warner Music Japan
♪ 読まれないこの手紙 それでも書かせて ♪ Yomare nai kono tegami soredemo kakase te
♪ A reply from me with eternal love
♪ 永遠の愛をこめた 私からの返信 ♪ Eien no ai o kome ta watashi kara no henshin
♪ That will be sent to your spirit
Director Kiyoshi Sasabe
♪ 魂に届くように ♪ Tamashī ni todoku yō ni