Ningen Gyorai Kaiten (1955)

Original title

人間魚雷回天

Directed by

Shūe Matsubayashi

Genre

war film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a Japanese war film about a unit of torpedo pilots during World War II. It shows the pilots as they train and prepare for their final missions.

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What happens

Ningen Gyorai Kaiten (Japanese: 人間魚雷回天; lit. Human-Steered Torpedo Kaiten) is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Shūe Matsubayashi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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