It’s November 20th, 1944 and Lieutenant Sekio Nishina is at the helm of a new secret weapon. The Kaiten. It’s a small and fast submersible built around a torpedo. But there’s a catch. It’s a one-way mission. Nishina and 3 other ‘underwater Kamikaze’ pilots closed in on the lagoon entrance of Ulithi atoll which serves as one of the biggest forward anchorages of the US Navy. These desperate men are trying to stop the US advance towards the Japanese home islands. Kaiten means ‘Turning the Heaven’. Will the sacrifice of best and brightest young Kaiten pilots turn the will of Heaven and change fate of Empire of Japan?
00:00 I-47 submarine
00:57 A mission to sink US ships
03:07 Nishina aims for the USS MIssissinewa
03:58 Battle of Midway
04:45 Nishina starts his training
05:29 Nishina gets an idea
06:30 Kaiten prototype
06:51 Volunteers test the weapon
07:12 Hiroshi Kuroki’s fatal training
08:40 The last moments
09:36 Mission Ceremony
10:34 I-47 delivers the pilots
11:19 4 Kaitens are deployed
11:50 Only one Kaiten remaning
12:23 “We’ve made it, my friend”
13:30 106 pilots’ sacrifice
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