The Human Bullet

Kihachi Okamoto
1968-10-22

Kamikaze funeral pyre
5.8
116 min

A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the war draws to a close, his commanding officers become increasingly desperate and push their men to ever more absurd extremes. The ridiculousness of the orders from above peak when the hero of the story is assigned to drive a one-man submarine straight into the hull of an enemy battleship.

Cast

Name Character Team
Minori Terada Him Unowned
Naoko Ohtani The Girl Unowned
Yūnosuke Itō Skipper Unowned
Hideyo Amamoto Father of Him Unowned
Masumi Harukawa Unowned
Tanie Kitabayashi Unowned
Sue Mitobe Unowned
Tatsuya Nakadai Narrator Unowned
Ichirō Nakatani Unowned
Shoichi Ozawa Unowned
Chishū Ryū Bookstore Man Unowned
Kunie Tanaka Unowned
Shinsuke Achiwa Unowned
Masao Imafuku Unowned
Kin Sugai Unowned
Etsushi Takahashi Unowned
Misako Tominaga Unowned
Yoshitaka Zushi Unowned
Hiroshi Hasegawa Unowned
Ayako Tsuda Unowned
Noriko Mihashi Unowned
Hiroko Mutô Unowned
Shûhei Shintani Unowned
Hirohisa Sonoda Unowned