The Eternal Zero (film)

The Eternal Zero
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTakashi Yamazaki
Screenplay byTakashi Yamazaki
Tamio Hayashi
Based onThe Eternal Zero
by Naoki Hyakuta
Produced byTaichi Ueda
Shūji Abe
Chikahiro Ando
StarringJunichi Okada
Haruma Miura
Mao Inoue
CinematographyKōzō Shibasaki
Edited byRyūji Miyajima
Music byNaoki Satō
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • 21 December 2013 (2013-12-21)
Running time
144 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Budget¥1 billion[1]
($10.25 million)
Box office$84.5 million[2]

The Eternal Zero (Japanese: 永遠の0, Hepburn: Eien no Zero) is a 2013 Japanese historical war film directed, co-written, and with visual effects by Takashi Yamazaki. Based on the eponymous 2006 novel by Naoki Hyakuta,[3][4] the film starts with a frame story set in 2004, where a Japanese man in his twenties learns that he is the grandson of a kamikaze military aviator who died in World War II, and then investigates the life story of his grandfather.

The Eternal Zero was released in Japan on 21 December 2013, by Toho. The film grossed over ¥8.76 billion, becoming the highest-grossing Japanese film of 2014.

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