The Eternal Zero (film) main subject World War II
The Eternal Zero (Japanese: 永遠の0, Hepburn: Eien no Zero, known as Kamikaze in other territories) is a 2013 Japanese war drama film directed by Takashi Yamazaki and based on a novel by Naoki Hyakuta, published in English by Vertical Inc.The film starts with a frame story set in 2004. A Japanese man in his twenties learns that he is the grandson of a kamikaze military aviator who died in World War II. He then investigates the life story of his grandfather, wanting to find out why a supposedly timid man volunteered for a suicide mission. Most of the film depicts the grandfather's wartime service.