The official website for Kiyoshi Sasabe’s The Legacy of the Sun (Nichirin no Isan) has been updated with a 50-second teaser trailer.
Based on a 1993 novel by Naoki Award-winner Jiro Sato, the film revolves around a top secret mission to hide Japanese treasures near the conclusion of World War II which would currently be valued at around 200 trillion yen.
Masato Sakai stars as Major Mashiba, an intelligence officer with Japan’s Imperial Guard. Together with First Lieutenant Koizumi (Seiji Fukushi) and Master Sergeant Mochizuki (Shido Nakamura), Mashiba attempts to execute secret orders to hide the treasures from the occupying forces of Douglas MacArthur in the hopes of funding the nation’s reconstruction at some point in the future.
Out of necessity, 20 young schoolgirls are enlisted to help with the mission without being informed of the details. Yusuke Santamaria plays the girls’ teacher and Kaoru Yachigusa plays one of the girls in the present day.
Based on a 1993 novel by Naoki Award-winner Jiro Sato, the film revolves around a top secret mission to hide Japanese treasures near the conclusion of World War II which would currently be valued at around 200 trillion yen.
Masato Sakai stars as Major Mashiba, an intelligence officer with Japan’s Imperial Guard. Together with First Lieutenant Koizumi (Seiji Fukushi) and Master Sergeant Mochizuki (Shido Nakamura), Mashiba attempts to execute secret orders to hide the treasures from the occupying forces of Douglas MacArthur in the hopes of funding the nation’s reconstruction at some point in the future.
Out of necessity, 20 young schoolgirls are enlisted to help with the mission without being informed of the details. Yusuke Santamaria plays the girls’ teacher and Kaoru Yachigusa plays one of the girls in the present day.
- 2/16/2011
- Nippon Cinema
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