Bôkoku no îjisu (2005)

Director:

Junji Sakamoto

Writers:

Harutoshi Fukui (novel)
Yasuo Hasegawa (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

30 July 2005 (Japan)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Thriller | War

Plot Keywords:

Navy | Military | North Korea | National Security | Tokyo Japan

Awards:

2 wins & 11 nominations

Cast

Hiroyuki Sanada	...	Hisashi Sengoku
Akira Terao	...	Hirotaka Miyazu
Kôichi Satô	...	Diasuke Atsumi
Kiichi Nakai	...	Yong Fa
Ryo Katsuji	...	Kou Kisaragi
Min-seo Chae	...	Jon-hee
Eisaku Yoshida	...	Isamu Takenaka
Shosuke Tanihara	...	Yudai Kazama
Isao Toyohara	...	Takeshi Sugiura
Masanobu Ando	...	Don-chol
Yoshio Harada	...	Koichiro Kajimoto
Mieko Harada	...	Yoshie Miyazu
Ittoku Kishibe	...	Kazuma Seto
Kurôdo Maki	...	Yoshiaki Munakata
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mike Han
Jun Hashizume
Sei Hiraizumi
Mansaku Ikeuchi
Miyuki Komatsu
Shunsuke Matsuoka
Ken Mitsuishi
Ryû Morioka
Ikuji Nakamura
Seiroku Nakazawa
Katsuhiko Sasaki
Takashi Shikauchi
Kenji Takechi	...	Daisu
Kosuke Toyohara
Ken'ichi Yajima
Toshiaki Yamada

Also Known As:

Aegis (International: English title)

Runtime:

126 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Certification:

South Korea:15

Filming Locations:

Japan

Company:

Cross Media

A gripping thriller on par with Crimson Tide!!

When a biological weapon is smuggled aboard a high tech battleship named Aegis it appears as if a new military age is dawning in Japan - Militant Terrorist Pao Yeung Fan is determined to unleash a biological weapon on Japan. But a brave Chief Petty Officer(Hiroyuki Sanada) has other ideas. He and an undercover defense agent attempt to stop them. On the surface its an action film, but beneath it is a relevant discussion of Japan's right of self defense in a new terror-age. Complicating matters is the U.S. involvement in developing the agent(GUSOH) and it being stolen from Okinawa.

The only answer to contain it is to use a thermite strike. Needless to say the tension keeps building. With the human factors of honor, duty and self-sacrifice sprinkled throughout the proceedings. If you can stand the subtitles it's worth a look! An apt quote was "A peace is a pause between wars...Damn! Out of Cigarettes,again!" Another good quote; "if a nation cannot use force in her defense, it's unfit to be called a nation!" Perhaps the late militant Japanese writer, Yukio Mishima would agree. Hence 6.8 out of 10