Kike, Wadatsumi no Koe [Priced-down Reissue]

[Machine Translation] To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, the posthumous memoirs of young men who went off to war, "Kike, Wadatsumi no Koe" (Listen, Wadatsumi no Koe), has been made into a film. On October 21, 1943, a ceremony was held in Jingu Gaien to celebrate the departure of the young men for military service. Rugger men Yusuke Tsurutani, Hiroshi Katsumura, Mamoru Aihara, and Yuzo Akutagawa were among them. I want to live and play rugby here again..." But none of them spoke of their desire to do so. The story eventually takes place on the disastrous battlefields of Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines (Philippine front) and Japan during the Pacific War (mainland and Okinawa fronts). Standing on the battlefields that are not on the ground, the soldiers look at life and death in the midst of battle and scatter without speaking their hearts. In the midst of defeat, the Japanese military resorted to a desperate strategy called "suicide attack" to protect the country by blowing themselves up. Many young men and women became victims of these suicide attacks and were never returned. (We must listen carefully to the voices of these young men and women, who became "Wadarumi (god who controls the sea)" and entrusted their longing thoughts to the sound of the waves. The cast includes Yuji Oda, Toru Kazama, Koji Matoba, and Mayu Tsuruta on the Philippine front. (Naoto Ogata and Toru Nakamura are cast in the mainland and Okinawa fronts. In addition, the film is a moving blockbuster that was filmed on location in the Philippines for an extended period of time in order to capture the reality of the war period and the thorough acting ability of the veteran actors.

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戦後50年を記念して、学徒出陣した若者たちの遺稿手記集「きけ、わだつみのこえ」を、いま一度映画化。戦時下の若者たちの短い人生と、彼らの友情を描いた悲哀の青春群像劇。1943年10月21日、神宮外苑の学徒出陣式。ラガーマンの鶴谷勇介、勝村寛、相原守、芥川雄三もその中にいた。「生きて再び此処でラグビーをやりたい・・・」だが、その想いを口にする者はいなかった。物語の舞台はやがて、フィリピン・リンガエン湾の悲惨な戦場〈フィリピン戦線〉と、太平洋戦争下の日本〈本土・沖縄戦線〉へ。グラウンドではない戦場に立つ彼らは、戦いの中で生死を見つめ、胸の内を語ることなく散っていく――。敗走の中、自爆により国を守る"特攻"という苦肉の戦法に出た日本軍。その犠牲者として、還らぬ人となった多くの若者たち。〈わだつみ (海をつかさどる神)〉となって切なる想いを波音に託す彼らの声を、我々はしっかりと聞き留めなければならない。キャストは、〈フィリピン戦線〉に、織田裕二、風間トオル、的場浩司、鶴田真由。〈本土・沖縄戦線〉に、緒形直人、仲村トオルを据えた豪華配陣。さらに、ベテラン俳優陣の徹底した演技力と、戦争当時のリアリティを求めて長期フィリピンロケを敢行した感動超大作。

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