The Eternal Zero (Japanese: 永遠の0, Hepburn: Eien no Zero, known as Kamikaze in other territories) is a 2013 Japanese war drama film film directed by Takashi Yamazaki, who co-wrote the screenplay with Tamio Hayashi, based on the 2006 Japanese novel of the same name by Naoki Hyakuta.The film starts with a frame story set in 2004. A Japanese man in his twenties learns that he is the grandson of a kamikaze military aviator who died in World War II. He then investigates the life story of his grandfather, wanting to find out why a supposedly timid man volunteered for a suicide attack. Most of the film depicts the grandfather's wartime service.
The Eternal Zero was released in Japan on 21 December 2013, by Toho.
Plot
In 2004, twenty-six-year-old Kentaro Saeki is repeatedly failing the national bar examination and is uncertain about his future. One day, after the funeral of his grandmother, Matsuno, he is startled to learn from his mother and older sister Keiko that his maternal grandfather...