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Farewell Rabaul (1954)

Directed by Ishirō Honda

War | Drama

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Overview

A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have little regard for life. Seeking the companionship of any woman who will have them, they spend their days indulging in every fantasy in order to escape the overwhelming fear of death looming just over the horizon.

Length 105 minutes

Actors

Ryô Ikebe | Mariko Okada | Rentarô Mikuni | Chieko Nakakita | Akihiko Hirata | Akemi Negishi | Akira Kubo | Yû Fujiki | Kenji Sahara | Haruo Nakajima | Mayuri Mokushô | Bob Booth | Fuyuki Murakami | Akira Tani | Munenori Oyamada | Seijirô Onda | Etsuo Saijo | Masao Mizuno | Toyoaki Suzuki | 帯一郎 | Kiyoshi Kamoda | Masazumi Okabe | Shôichi Hirose | Saburô Kadowaki | Kimio Shimazaki | Yutaka Oka | Tsuneo Katagiri | Jun Mikami | Hideko Ebata | Kazumi Hanabusa | Kazuko Igarashi | Hiroko Terasawa | Yoko Ueno | Ryûtarô Amami | Kenzo Echigo | Haruya Sakamoto | Yutaka Sada | Masaaki Tachibana | Ichirô Chiba | Mitsuo Tsuda | Yasuhisa Tsutsumi | Mitsuo Matsumoto | Rinsaku Ogata | Hideo Shibuya | Minoru Itô | Masaki Shinohara | Ren Imaizumi | Kyôko Ozawa | Saeko Kuroiwa | Kôji Uruki | Junpei Natsuki

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Glad DKUTV programmed this again (this time for their 5th anniversary marathon). This is one of Honda’s best films and a real shame it remains unavailable on home media to western audiences.

It’s wild that there was a point early in his career where he could’ve followed his friend Akira Kurasawa and continued to make films similar to this, very drama oriented. Instead he took a different path and made sci-fi and giant monster movies.

Holy crap I just noticed after logging this that the last time I viewed this (the only other the time) was exactly 2 years to the day! Wonder if Josef planned it that way. So wild.

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