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2009 Japanese film
Shizumanu Taiy?
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Film poster
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Kanji
| 沈まぬ太陽
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Directed by
| Setsur? Wakamatsu
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Written by
| Takuya Nishioka
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Produced by
| Taiichi Inoue
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Starring
| Ken Watanabe
Tomokazu Miura
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Music by
| Norihito Sumitomo
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Production
company
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Distributed by
| Toho
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Release date
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- October 24, 2009
(
2009-10-24
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Running time
| 202 minutes
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Country
| Japan
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Language
| Japanese
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Budget
| 2.8 billion yen
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Shizumanu Taiy?
(
沈まぬ太陽
)
(lit.
The Never-setting Sun
) is a 2009
Japanese
film directed by Setsur? Wakamatsu. It is also known as
The Unbroken
in the United States.
Shizumanu Taiy?
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 Airlines 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 K?ji Ishizaka, Ky?ko 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.
Awards and nominations
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34th
Hochi Film Award
[1]
33rd
Japan Academy Prize
[2]
- Won
: Best Film
- Won
: Best Actor - Ken Watanabe
Cast
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References
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- ^
報知映?賞ヒストリ?
(in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from
the original
on 12 March 2009
. Retrieved
12 January
2010
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日本アカデミ?賞?要
(in Japanese). Japanese Academy Prize
. Retrieved
15 February
2012
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External links
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