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SEA WITHOUT EXIT

Introduction: The movie is based on the novel "Deguchi no Nai Umi" by Hideo Yokoyama, the author of such blockbuster novels as Hanochi ("Half a Confession"). The screenplay will be written by Yoji Yamada, director and writer of epics such as "The Hidden Blade" and "The Twilight Samurai". In the director's chair is Kyoshi Sasabe, the young and energetic filmmaker who turned "Half a Confession" into a hit. Two of the most recognized filmmakers in modern Japanese cinema bring to the silver screen a brilliant film adaptation of this moving and compelling story. As wars still rage across the world sixty years after the end of the Second World War, this "What does it mean to live?"
Synopsis: Koji Namiki, a talented young pitcher, who had won the National High School Baseball Championships enters university, but soon afterwards injures his elbow. He and his teammates work hard to get back on the field placing all his hopes on a new slow-ball, "the magic pitch." However, the outbreak of WWII wipes out the baseball ambitions from everyone. They join the military and in the navy undergo the severe training that prepares them for death. Death awaits them in a "kaiten" (special attack submarine or "human torpedo") within the gloomy ocean depths, but Koji never gives up his dream of the "magic pitch."