Manatsu no Orion
Battle under Orion
(c) tv asahi / Toho / Hakuhodo DY Media Partners / VAP / Shogakukan / Kinoshita Group / Destiny / Nippon Shuppan Hanbai / Asahi Broadcasting / Nagoya Broadcasting Network / The Asahi Shimbun
(c) tv asahi / Toho / Hakuhodo DY Media Partners / VAP / Shogakukan / Kinoshita Group / Destiny / Nippon Shuppan Hanbai / Asahi Broadcasting / Nagoya Broadcasting Network / The Asahi Shimbun
- Release Date
- June, 13th, 2009
- Running Time
- 119 min
- Genre
- -
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- 35mm
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- TAMAKI Hiroshi ── KURAMOTO Takayuki
- KITAGAWA Keiko ── ARISAWA Shizuko / KURAMOTO Izumi
- DOHCHIN Yoshikuni ── ARISAWA Yoshihiko
[ Staff ]
- HASEGAWA Yasuo ── Screenplay
- IIDA Kenzaburo ── Screenplay
- IKEGAMI Tsukasa ── Original Story
- FUKUI Harutoshi ── Adaptation
- IWASHIRO Taro ── Music
- OKADA Shunji ── NY Unit Director
- YAMAMOTO Hideo ── Cinematography
- KANEDA Katsumi ── Production Design
- ABE Hirohide ── Editor
[ Production Company ]
tv asahi / Toho / Hakuhodo DY Media Partners / VAP / Shogakukan / Kinoshita Group / Destiny / Nippon Shuppan Hanbai / Asahi Broadcasting / Nagoya Broadcasting Network / The Asahi Shimbun
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
TOHO
[ Story ]
An epic drama inspired by the story of Hashimoto Mochitsura, commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-58, which torpedoed the USS Indianapolis in the last days of World War II. Written by Fukui Harutoshi (Aegis; Lorelei) and directed by Shinohara Tetsuo, winner of the 26th Yamaji Fumiko Film Prize (Inochi).
It's 2009. Kuramoto Izumi (Kitagawa Keiko) receives a letter from a stranger in America. Enclosed is a sheet of music that belonged to her late grandfather, Kuramoto Takayuki, who was a submarine commander. Izumi visits his old comrade, who tells her the story of her grandfather during the war. In 1945, young Kuramoto (Tamaki Hiroshi), commander of the submarine I-77, was in love with Shizuko (Kitagawa, in a dual role), the sister of Arisawa (Dochin Yoshikuni), his best friend and commander of the I-81. Kuramoto leaves for Okinawa, taking with him a score entitled "Midsummer Orion," put down in Shizuko's own hand. At sea, the I-77 engages in a fierce battle with the U.S. destroyer Percival. With just one hour's worth of oxygen remaining in the vessel, Kuramoto pins his hopes on a last-ditch tactic to survive this seemingly hopeless predicament.
[ Official Site ]
[ Contact (International) ]
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