The Eternal Zero (2013) on Netflix
NR20132h 24mActionDramaMystery
Kentaro Saeki is failing the bar exam when he learns the grandfather he knew was not a blood relative. He and his sister Keiko question the kamikaze pilot Kyuzo Miyabe's former comrades.
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In 2004, twenty-six-year-old Kentaro Saeki keeps failing Japan's national bar examination and has no clear direction for his future. After the funeral of his grandmother Matsuno, his mother and his older sister Keiko tell him that the grandfather he grew up with, Kenichiro, was not related to him by blood. Their real grandfather, Kyuzo Miyabe, was a kamikaze pilot who died in the war. Kentaro and Keiko set out to find out what kind of man he was, visiting the men who flew with him. Those veterans open with the same complaint: Miyabe was timid and a coward, though a skilled pilot, because he came back alive from missions. He had promised his wife Matsuno and their daughter Kiyoko that he would return.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Eternal Zero (2013)
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- The film drew criticism for its sympathetic depiction of kamikaze pilots; director Hayao Miyazaki accused it of building a Zero fighter story on "a fictional war account that is a pack of lies", calling it "just continuing a phony myth".
- The film used computer-generated imagery for its bombing runs and dogfights because so few Zero fighters remain in flyable condition today.
- Director Takashi Yamazaki and screenwriter Tamio Hayashi cut many characters and scenes from Naoki Hyakuta's novel; Yamazaki said the team "really struggled at the script stage, trying to extract the essence of the novel."
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