Aegis

Aegis

127 mins | Drama, Action | July 30, 2005

The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No sooner is the Isokaze on open water, however, then the FTG reveal themselves to be terrorist stowaways who kill the ship's captain, send the rest of the crew overboard and take control of the vessel. The ship is carrying a secret biological weapon which the terrorists are now threatening to use to level Tokyo! Only a stowaway NCO, Sengoko (played by Sanada Hiroyuki from Ring and Twilight Samurai) is in a position to stop them - but does he really have what it takes to save the day? Playing like a cross between a sea-faring version of Top Gun and Die Hard, director Sakamoto Junji shows that it's not just Hollywood that can produce thrill-a-minute action spectaculars.

Aegis

127 mins | Drama, Action | July 30, 2005

Aegis
The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No sooner is the Isokaze on open water, however, then the FTG reveal themselves to be terrorist stowaways who kill the ship's captain, send the rest of the crew overboard and take control of the vessel. The ship is carrying a secret biological weapon which the terrorists are now threatening to use to level Tokyo! Only a stowaway NCO, Sengoko (played by Sanada Hiroyuki from Ring and Twilight Samurai) is in a position to stop them - but does he really have what it takes to save the day? Playing like a cross between a sea-faring version of Top Gun and Die Hard, director Sakamoto Junji shows that it's not just Hollywood that can produce thrill-a-minute action spectaculars.
IMDb rating 5.5
Producers Shochiku Co., Ltd., Bandai Visual, Tokyo FM Broadcasting Company, Nippon Herald Films, Dentsu, Cross Media, Geneon Universal Entertainment, Sankei Shimbun, Imagica
Original title 亡国のイージス
Directors Junji Sakamoto
Writers Harutoshi Fukui, Kenzaburô Iida, Yasuo Hasegawa

Cast

Hiroyuki Sanada

as Hisashi Sengoku

Akira Terao

as Hirotaka Miyazu

Koichi Sato

as Diasuke Atsumi

Kiichi Nakai

as Yong Fa

Ryo Katsuji

as Kou Kisaragi

Chae Min-seo

as Jon-hee

Eisaku Yoshida

as Isamu Takenaka

Shosuke Tanihara

as Yudai Kazama

Masanobu Ando

as Don-chol

Yoshio Harada

as Koichiro Kajimoto

Mieko Harada

as Yoshie Miyazu

Ittoku Kishibe

as Kazuma Seto

Claude Maki

as Yoshiaki Munakata