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22 October 1968 (Japan) morePlot:
During World War II, a Japanese soldier finds himself assigned to a kamikaze mission against a U.S. battleship. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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A brilliant anti-war satire moreCast
(Credited cast)| Minori Terada | ... | Him | |
| Naoko Otani | ... | The Girl | |
| Yûnosuke Itô | ... | Skipper | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Eisei Amamoto | ... | Father of Him | |
| Masumi Harukawa | |||
| Tanie Kitabayashi | |||
| Sue Mitobe | |||
| Tatsuya Nakadai | ... | A narrator | |
| Ichirô Nakaya | |||
| Shoichi Ozawa | |||
| Chishu Ryu | ... | Old man of used-book store | |
| Kin Sugai | |||
| Etsushi Takahashi | |||
| Kunie Tanaka | |||
| Yoshitaka Zushi | ... | Brother boy | |
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It's a shame this movie can't be found on home video. See it if you get a chance. It was distributed in the U.S. under the name "The Human Bullet," and tells the story of a Japanese soldier in WWII who eventually finds himself launched on a kamakazi mission against a U.S. ship.
The free spirit of 1968 is very much evident in the film as, for example, our hero's blathering superiors are compared to an endlessly skipping vinyl LP. A funny savaging of the dehumanization of wartime and the military in general.