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The last Kamikaze : testimonials from WWII suicide pilots /

This film explores the minds of former suicide bombers who participated in the first well-orchestrated suicide mission in modern history, the one carried out by the air arm of the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII. Although in the beginning, these suicide pilots were university graduates and intell...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Takahashi, Masami
Other Authors: Gaskins, Suzanne, narrator, Parker, John, narrator
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 2007.
Series:Ethnographic video online.
Subjects:
Kamikaze pilots > Japan > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, Japanese.
Kamikazes (Pilotes) > Japon > Biographies.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Opérations aériennes japonaises.
Kamikaze pilots.
Military operations, Aerial > Japanese.
Japan.
1939-1945
Documentary.
Documentaries and Factual Films
Encoded moving images.
Biographies.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Personal narratives > Japanese.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Films ethnographiques.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
Description
Summary:This film explores the minds of former suicide bombers who participated in the first well-orchestrated suicide mission in modern history, the one carried out by the air arm of the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII. Although in the beginning, these suicide pilots were university graduates and intellectual elites in their 20s, by 1942 the Navy was aggressively recruiting a large number of boys who were only in their low teens. Fortunately, some never flew their final suicide mission because the war ended before it was their turn to fly out.
Physical Description:1 online resource (63 min.)
Production Credits:Director, Masami Takahashi.