A group of tortured teenage WW 2 Kamikaze pilots must find a way to avoid their last useless suicide mission with the help of the leader’s lover, a lower class servant woman, and  brilliantly defeat their sadistic superiors’ plans for their deaths. 

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SYNOPSIS:

Tortured and beaten into mindless, patriotic submission by their sadistic Japanese superior officers, a group of teenage Kamikaze pilots look to their college-age leader for guidance about how to make sense of their soon-to-be ended lives. However, he is consumed both with his ambivalent feelings about the uselessness of his coming battle with the monolithic and all-powerful American fleet, and with his ill-fated love for a lower class woman, who wishes him to not make his final suicide flight. How he decides to solve this impossible dilemma leads to nail-biting tension that culminates in a brilliant, paradoxical solution.

Background: STEEL WIND describes the emotional gauntlet of a group of extremely young Kamikaze pilots training for a final mission near Okinawa in the last years of WW2 Japan. Written with guidance and editing from a Japanese national with knowledge of the period, this film script captures the dramatic interior lives of pilots from this much misunderstood period.