Haoto

[Machine Translation] A story of a miracle found in a mental hospital at the end of the Pacific War. The original play "Haoto" was first performed at the Honda Theatre in Shimokitazawa in 2005. The play is set in a mental hospital in the suburbs of Tokyo at the end of the Pacific War. The theme of the madness of the outside world in contrast to the inside of the hospital is depicted not only seriously, but also with humor, suspense, and fantasy elements. The film was made with great anticipation and was released in theaters in the summer of 2025, the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, a time of heightened military tension around the world, including Russia's military invasion of the Ukraine. Ryuji Harada plays Ryuji Mizukoshi, a former elite naval officer who criticized the war and the military and was treated as a psychopath. Asaharu Hasegawa plays Yomogi, a naval officer who was a close friend of Mizukoshi. Tsurutaro Kataoka plays Dr. Aramata, who developed dissociative identity disorder (multiple personalities) near the development of the atomic bomb. The cast also includes Reiko Takashima, Ryo Kinomoto, Narumi Kuranoo and Ayaki Murayama of AKB48, and Koichi Miura. The director is Take, who also wrote and directed the stage version. He also wrote the script, produced, and acted in the film. One day in early summer, an elderly man in his 90s visits his nephew, a detective, at the police station and confesses that he killed a man. The old man begins to tell the story of a special facility at the end of the Pacific War. The old man begins to tell the story of a special facility at the end of the Pacific War, where a doctor working on the development of the atomic bomb and a man who can predict 100% of the war situation are located. Yomogi, a naval officer, hires Tsuda, an American agent of Japanese descent born in Hawaii, as a double agent and brings him to the facility. Yomogi plans to invite the Soviet ambassador and Morimoto, an army officer of Japanese descent, to the facility in order to have the Soviet Union act as an intermediary and promote peace negotiations. The U.S., on the other hand, becomes suspicious of Tsuda's presence and sends Tanaka, also of Japanese Hawaiian descent, to the facility.

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太平洋戦争末期の精神病院。そこで見つけた、奇跡の物語。2005年に下北沢の本多劇場で初上演した創作舞台『ハオト』。太平洋戦争末期の東京郊外にある精神病院を舞台に、病院内との対比で外界の狂気を問うテーマを、シリアスなだけでなく、ユーモアとサスペンスとファンタジー要素も織り交ぜで描き、鑑賞した観客からは、『カッコーの巣の上で』に匹敵すると絶賛された。満を持して映画化され、ロシアのウクライナへの軍事侵攻など、世界的にも軍事的緊張が高まる戦後80周年を迎える2025年夏に劇場公開となった。戦争や軍を批判し精神病扱いをされた元エリート海軍兵の水越役に原田龍二。水越の親友だった海軍将校・蓬役に長谷川朝晴。原子爆弾開発間近に解離性同一障害 (多重人格)となった荒俣博士役に片岡鶴太郎。その他、高島礼子や木之元亮、AKB48の倉野尾成美と村山彩希、三浦浩一など豪華なキャストが名を連ねている。監督は、舞台版の作・演出も務めた丈。本作では脚本・プロデューサー・出演も兼任している。──初夏のある日、警察署に90歳を超えた一人の老人が甥っ子の刑事宛に訪れ、「人を殺した」と告白。老人は、太平洋戦争末期の特殊施設の話を始める。そこは、原爆開発を手掛ける博士や戦況を100%予知する男がいる、特殊機密施設。海軍の将校・蓬が、ハワイ生まれの日系人である米国の諜報員・津田を二重スパイとして雇い、施設に連れてくる。蓬は、ソ連に仲介してもらい、和平交渉を進めようと、日系ソ連人のソ連大使と陸軍将校の森本を施設に招こうと画策。方や米国は、津田の存在を怪しみ、同じく日系ハワイ人の田中を送り込む。