The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner

Synopsis

On August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki led the last Special Attack Force pilots across the Pacific, to crash into American ships. Thirty-five years later, the men who serviced the aeroplanes are still meeting up for their annual dinner. Now settled into civilian jobs - dentist, baker, taxi-driver, insurance salesman - and with children and grandchildren, they bemoan the decay of traditional Japanese values. Hard liquor is imbibed, toasts raised to the memory of the heroic dead, and old rivalries resurface. The survivors' dissatisfaction with post-war life comes to a head when, in a moment of drunken inspiration, Tokkotai the airline pilot decides on a symbolic gesture to show that the kamikaze spirit lives on.

Main Cast

Peter Sallis

Shushin

Age : 96 | Popularity : 10%

John Blythe

Kamiwashi

Age : 72 | Popularity : 3%

Harold Goodwin

Shimpu

Age : 86 | Popularity : 5%

Don Henderson

Tokkotai

Age : 64 | Popularity : 5%

Richard Vernon

Makato

Age : 72 | Popularity : 7%

Patricia Prior

Miss Tomishita

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Mary Maddox

Girl Singer

Age : N/A | Popularity : 4%

Mark Penfold

Co-Pilot

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Baz Taylor
Writing	Writer	Stewart Parker
Department	Role	Name

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