| Sea Without Exit | |
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| Directed by | Kiyoshi Sasabe |
| Produced by | Chiaki Noji Tetsuo Sasho |
| Written by | Novel: Hideo Yokoyama Screenplay: Yoji Yamada Motofumi Tomikawa |
| Music by | Mino Kabasawa |
| Cinematography | Katsumi Yanagishima |
| Editing by | Isao Kawase |
| Distributed by | Shochiku |
| Released | September 16, 2006 |
| Running time | 121 min. |
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Sea Without Exit (出口のない海 Deguchi no Nai Umi) is a 2006 Japanese movie based on a Hideo Yokoyama novel and directed by Kiyoshi Sasabe. The film both glorifies and raises questions about the small 1-man kamikaze submarine attacks sent at U.S. ships during World War II.
Plot[]
In 1945 a small Japanese submarine on a suicide mission is attacked by a U.S. battleship. The 4 members of the crew must remain silent after the initial attack to avoid further radar detection, and during this time they flash back to their college days and other events in their lives which led up to this point.
Cast[]
- Shinosuke Ichikawa ... Koji Namiki
- Yusuke Iseya ... Katsuya Kita
- Juri Ueno ... Minako Narumi
- Shun Shioya ... Nobuo Ito
- Teruyuki Kagawa ... Kashima
- Yuko Kotegawa ... Mitsue Namiki
- Tomokazu Miura ... Toshiaki Namiki
- Hiroyuki Hirayama ... Gouhara
- Mitsunori Isaki ... Hiroyuki Okita
- Shuuji Kashiwabara ... Yasukichi Sakuma
- Yuki Kuroda ... Satoshi Obata
- Toshiyuki Nagashima ... Baba
- Tsubasa Nakamura ... Chihara
- Anna Otaka ... Yukiyo Namiki
- Yasuhito Shimao ... Shibada
- Kazuya Takahashi ... Kenzaki
- Minoru Tanaka ... Toda
External links[]
- Sea Without Exit review at The Japan Times Online (Mark Schilling)
- Sea Without Exit review at Variety.com
- Sea Without Exit review at Kamikaze Images (Bill Gordon)