The Unbroken (2009)
October 23, 2009Release Date
The Unbroken (2009)
October 23, 2009Release Date


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Cast & Crew.

Ken Watanabe
Hajime Onchi

Kyoka Suzuki
Ritsuko Onchi

Mitsuko Kusabue
Masae Onchi

Takashi Kashiwabara
Katsumi Onchi

Erika Toda
Junko Onchi

Tomokazu Miura
Shiro Gyoten

Tae Kimura
Natsuko Suzuki

Yasuko Matsuyuki
Miki Mitsui

Shigeru Kōyama
President Hiyama

Toshio Shiba
President Domoto

Tadashi Yokouchi
Umino Noboru

Misa Shimizu
Shuko Oyamada

Masane Tsukayama
Mitsunari Michio

Koji Ishizaka
Masayuki Kokumi

Teruyuki Kagawa
Kazuo Yagi

Ren Osugi
Wako

Masahiko Nishimura
Chuji Yaba

Toru Kazama
Toru Sawaizumi

Shigeo Minakami
Producer

Tatsuo Yamada
Yasuo Kotoko

Sadao Ochi
Producer

Kazunori Okada
Producer

Shun Sugata
Tatsuro Shikata

Nao Matsushita
Kyoko Higuchi
Media.

Details.
Release DateOctober 23, 2009
Original Name沈まぬ太陽
StatusReleased
Running Time3h 22m
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This Movie Is About.
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Shizumanu Taiyō (沈まぬ太陽) (lit. The Never-setting Sun) is a 2009 Japanese film directed by Setsurō Wakamatsu. It is also known as The Unbroken in the United States.
Shizumanu Taiyō is based on a novel by Toyoko Yamasaki which centers on Hajime Onchi, an employee of "NAL," a large national airline. The first part of the novel focuses on Onchi's activity as the chairman of the employees' union in the 1960s; his reward for fighting for better working conditions for the staff is a series of postings abroad, to Pakistan, Iran, and finally Kenya, a destination to which the company does not even fly. The second and third parts of the novel take place in 1985 and chronicle the crash of a jumbo jet and its aftermath within the company.
The events portrayed in the story are based upon actual events that took place at Japan Airlines. The character of Onchi is based upon JAL labor organizer and author Hirotaro Ogura, and the pivotal crash portrayed in the novel is based closely upon the crash of Japan Air Lines Flight 123 (up to having the same flight number and taking place at the same location, date and time). Several politicians and JAL executives portrayed in the story are also based on real-world counterparts. JAL objected strongly to both the novel and the film, stating that they were defamatory to the airline and disrespected the victims of the actual Flight 123. The novel claims to be a work based upon real-life events, while the film claims to be entirely a work of fiction.
The cast of the film includes Ken Watanabe as Onchi, with Kōji Ishizaka, Kyōko Suzuki, Yasuko Matsuyuki and Tomokazu Miura in supporting roles. The violininst Diana Yukawa, whose father died in the real-world crash of JAL Flight 123, was involved in the music for the film.
The premiere was on 24 October 2009 in Ginza. Yukawa performed "Little Prayer", the track she recorded for the film.
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