The Eternal Zero

The Eternal Zero 0 , Eien no Zero? is a 2013 Japanese war drama film directed by Takashi Yamazaki and based on a novel by Naoki Hyakuta, published in English by Vertical Inc..

The film begins with an unspecified attack near the end of the Pacific War, a Zero fighter plane threatens the United States Pacific Fleet by cutting through its defensive antiaircraft fire. Kyuzo Miyabe, the pilot of the Zero fighter is regarded by his comrades as a coward, though an exceptionally skilled fighter pilot, for consistently returning alive from missions, openly explaining I dont want to die, the result of a promise made to his wife Matsuno and daughter Kiyoko to return from the war alive.After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy advances steadily, only to be steadily beaten hollow in the battles from Battle of Midway and Bombing on Rabaul onwards. Despite the rising desperation and hopelessness of their situation, all of Miyabes men say they wish to die gloriously in battle. However, he persuades them, by his simple and honest example Miyabe accepts severe beatings by outraged senior officers several times for speaking these opinions, and refuses to retract them, that to survive is worthwhile. ........

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