CREDITS

Director/Producer
RISA MORIMOTO

Producer/Writer
LINDA HOAGLUND

Executive Producer
TERAO/LEVINE FAMILY FUND

Associate Producer
FUMIKO HATTORI

Cinematographer
FRANCISCO ALIWALAS

Editor
MAYA STARK

Art Direction
JOE WU

Animation
JEF CASTRO

Sound Design
TOM LINO

Additional Camera
TETSUHIRO KATO
ERIC LIN
RISA MORIMOTO

Associate Editor
NICHOLAS RUCKA

Assistant Editor
MASAKO TSUMURA

Consultant
BILL GORDON

Researchers
MIDORI YANAGIHARA
TSUNODA TAKUYA

Poster Design
JOHN WONG

Music
EXTREME MUSIC

Composer
HEKIRO MATSUOKA

Violin
NURIT STARK

Percussion
THOM GARVEY

Shakuhachi
PERRY YUNG

Bilingual Support
CHISATO UNO

Research Interns
SARAH CHANG
NAKAMURA AYAKA

Transcription
TAIYO NA
DAVID YAEGASHI

Former Kamikaze Pilots
ENA TAKEHIKO
HAMAZONO SHIGEYOSHI
NAKAJIMA KAZUO
UESHIMA TAKEO

USS Drexler Survivors
EUGENE BRICK
HENRY CHRISTENSEN
JOSEPH HAAS
FRED MITCHELL
DUKE PAYNE

Interviewees
ARAKI KAZUTSUGU
JOHN DOWER
HIDAKA KOUTAROU
HIRATA SOUEI
KAKU JUNGO
KAMITOMO NORIAKI
KITAHARA ISAO
MIURA TOSHIMI
MIURA KAZUHITO
MORIMOTO TADAO
EMIKO OHNUKI-TIERNEY
SASAKI TAMANO
SATO FUKUO
SUGAI TERUKO
SUNADA KIMIKO
SUNADA HIROSHI
TORIHAMA AKIHISA
WATANABE KUMI

Producers would like to thank
JANET HOAGLUND
MICHAEL KATO
YOICHI KAWAKITA
NORIKO AND HISANORI MORIMOTO
MACHIKO POSNER
JOHN AND LIGIA SEWARD
DAVID WILLCUTTS
CHIKA YOSHIDA

Special Thanks
ABE FUJIKO
AIHARA HIROMI
JEFF BREZ
CINDY CHAO
SUZY ELMINGER
ENA MIZUUKO
JOEY FORSYTHE
FUCHIGAMI IKUKO
ATSUSHI FUNAHASHI
NATSU FURUICHI
FURUKAWA TAKUICHI
CAROL GLUCK
PAUL GRIFFIN
ED HALTER
HANAI HIROMI
HASHIGUCHI SADANOBU
HOEST FAMILY
IMATO HIRONORI
NILLIE IMURA
IMURA FAMILY
DAVID JANES
AVI KASTORIANO
KORE-EDA HIROKAZU
KAZUMA MAETAKENISHI
TAMAMI KUBO
HARUKA KUGA
SUE LEE
KEN LEVIS
STEVEN MALLORCA
MATSUNAGA YUKIO
MINETOMA MASUO
THE PEOPLE OF MISHIMAMURA
T. MIZUNO
MORIYOSHI HARUYO
MORONAGA YUJI
OGURI KEN’ICHI
OKAMOTO HIROFUMI
HAROLD MOSS
OOI HIROTSUGU
OOYAMA TATSUO
OOYAMA HIDEHITO
YARON ORBACH
ORITA MORIHIKO
GEORGE PACKARD
BRIAN PALMER
DON PALMER
SAITO SHIGEMITSU
SAKAMOTO JUNJI
SAKURAI FAMILY
SAPANA SAKYA
SASAKI FAMILY
SATO SANAE
SHIBATA KATSUYOSHI
SHIMIZU KAZUKO
SHIRAKO YUKO
SHIRAKO YOKO
KEIJI SHONO
SHIII YUKIKO
SUDA SHINAKO
SUNADA FAMILY
TANAKA NAOTO
JOHN WALTER
JOHN WOO
ROGER WOO
JAMES YAEGASHI
EMI YAMASAKI
YASUNAGA KATSUMI
PAMELA YATES & PACO DeONIS
AGNES ZELLIN

All our patient family and friends


"Doki no Sakura" Arranged and performed by NURIT STARK Published by JASRAC

"Honshirabe" Arranged and performed by PERRY YUNG

Much gratitude
Bansei Tokko Peace Museum
Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots
Tachiarai Peace Memorial Museum
Kanoya (Maritime) Self Defense Force Museum
Kyokaku-ji Temple
Hotaru Museum
Tomiya Ryokan
Yokaren Museum, Oita
USS Drexler Alumni Association
Asian CineVision
WooArt International
Flickerlab

Archival Footage and Photos
Asahi Newspaper
Creation Five
Ena Takehiko
Furukawa Takuichi
Hamazono Shigeyoshi
Hiroshima Peace Museum
Kjeld Duits Photography
[ infcam]
Iwanami Shoten
Kobe Newspaper
Nakajima Kazuo
National Archives and Research Administration
Nichiei
Ueshima Takeo

Select images courtesy of David C. Earhart and the David C. Earhart Collection of Primary Sources from the Pacific War and Japanese Media Representations of World War II: Imaging War by David C. Earhart
Ishikawa Koyo, Tokyo firebombing
Kikuji Shunkichi, Pilot cadet training
Matsushige Mitsuo, (Chugoku Shinbun Archives) Hiroshima, August 6, 1945
Yamahata Yosuke, Nagasaki City, August 10, 1945
Poster photo provided by WALTER J. ZELLIN

This project was funded in part by
US-Japan Foundation
Japan Foundation
New York Council for the Arts
Center for Asian American Media
Corporation for Public Broadcasting

English Subtitles: LINDA HOAGLUND

©2007 Edgewood Pictures, Inc.