The Eternal Zero (film)
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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.
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Directed by | Takashi Yamazaki |
Screenplay by | Takashi Yamazaki Tamio Hayashi |
Based on | The Eternal Zero by Naoki Hyakuta |
Produced by | Taichi Ueda Shūji Abe Chikahiro Ando |
Starring | Junichi Okada Haruma Miura Mao Inoue |
Cinematography | Kōzō Shibasaki |
Edited by | Ryūji Miyajima |
Music by | Naoki Satō |
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Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 144 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Budget | ¥1 billion[1] ($10.25 million) |
Box office | $84.5 million[2] |
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. It was later released in the United Kingdom as The Fighter Pilot.[citation needed]