Eternal Zero - Flight of No Return

Movie
German title	Eternal Zero - Flight of No Return
Original title	永遠の 0 / A no zero
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
Publishing year	2013
length	137 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Takashi Yamazaki
script	Tamio Hayashi , ; Takashi Yamazaki
production	Minami Ichikawa , ; Tatsuro Hatanaka , ; Hitoshi Endō , ; Shuji Abe
music	Naoki Sato
camera	Nariyuki Ueda
cut	Ryūji Miyajima
occupation
	Jun'ichi Okada : Kyuzo Miyabe; Haruma Miura : Kentaro Saeki; Kazue Fukiishi : Keiko Saeki; Mao Inoue : Matsuno; Jun Fubuki : Sayako Saeki; Isao Natsuyagi : Kenichiro; Min Tanaka : Kageura; Isao Hashizume : Isaki;

Eternal Zero - Flight of No Return (Original title: 永遠の 0 , Eien no Zero ) is a Japanese film by the director Takashi Yamazaki from 2013. The film is based on the novel Eien no 0 from 2006 by Naoki Hyakuta .

action

The film tells the search for traces of the 26-year-old Kentaro Saeki and his sister Keiko for the life of their unknown grandfather. The only reference to this can be found in 2004 only in the questioning of former comrades from his service. He flew as a fighter pilot and instructor during the Second World War from the attack on Pearl Harbor until 1945, in which he was finally killed as a so-called " Kamikaze " pilot. Narrated and shown in flashbacks, an increasingly precise picture of his character, his assignments as a pilot and individual motives for his actions emerges.

background

The "Zero" contained in the film title refers to the Mitsubishi A6M " Zero " ( Japanese 零式艦上戦闘機 rei-shiki kanjō sentōki "type zero carrier-based fighter"), a Japanese fighter aircraft of the Second World War.

Reviews

Hayao Miyazaki , the creator of the Oscar-nominated cartoon How the Wind Rises , which tells the story of the Mitsubishi A6M " Zero " and its designer Jirō Horikoshi , categorically rejected the film:

"They're trying to make a Zero fighter story based on a fictional war account that is a pack of lies [...] They're just continuing a phony myth, saying, 'Take pride in the Zero fighter." I've hated that sort of thing ever since I was a kid. "

- Hayao Miyazaki : The Japan Times

Web links

Eternal Zero - Flight of No Return in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Official website (English / Japanese)

Individual evidence

↑ Release certificate for Eternal Zero - Flight of No Return . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2015 (PDF; test number: 150 726 V).
^ Mark Schilling: Debate still rages over Abe-endorsed WWII drama. In: Culture. The Japan Times, February 20, 2014, accessed October 16, 2015 .

[FSK-1] Release certificate for Eternal Zero - Flight of No Return . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2015 (PDF; test number: 150 726 V).

[jt_20140220-2] Mark Schilling: Debate still rages over Abe-endorsed WWII drama. In: Culture. The Japan Times, February 20, 2014, accessed October 16, 2015 .