


Kamikaze: An Untold History
Kamikaze: An Untold History
On the Pacific front, towards the end of the Second World War, Japan's imperial armed forces launched kamikaze attacks - suicide missions by aircraft laden with bombs. Close to 4,000 Japanese airmen died, and nearly 7,000 Allied military personnel were killed, and thousands more were injured by the attacks. How could this happen? Utilising 15 years' worth of extensive interviews with US and Japanese veterans, Takayuki Oshima's film delves into the mechanism of how a crazed madness swept through an entire nation
Kamikaze: An Untold History airs on BBC Four HD at 9:00 PM, Monday 28 July. (Subtitles, new.)
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General
Togo Igawa
Narrator
Takayuki Oshima
Director
Koichi Ota
Executive Producer