Just came across a movie I had not heard of before. It is a 2006 movie about university students becoming Kaiten crew. This is with English subtitles, if you click the text button. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BprkULV_xg
You won't see any fancy special helmets used in this film, as the uniforms and headgear of the Kaiten crew are the flight uniform style actually known to have been worn by them in training as well as on their missions. I found it to be a rather boring movie, but the training and mission scenes were interesting. Here is an English review of the book the film is based on http://wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/kami...yama/index.htm
Here are photos of the Kaiten interior set used in the film and now displayed in the museum at the old kaiten site. They had to build it larger than original for the benefit of the actors, who were much taller than the war-time crew. http://www006.upp.so-net.ne.jp/sumiy...hinonaiumi.htm
You won't see any fancy special helmets used in this film, as the uniforms and headgear of the Kaiten crew are the flight uniform style actually known to have been worn by them in training as well as on their missions. I found it to be a rather boring movie, but the training and mission scenes were interesting. Here is an English review of the book the film is based on http://wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/kami...yama/index.htm
Here are photos of the Kaiten interior set used in the film and now displayed in the museum at the old kaiten site. They had to build it larger than original for the benefit of the actors, who were much taller than the war-time crew. http://www006.upp.so-net.ne.jp/sumiy...hinonaiumi.htm
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