--- title: 'The Eternal Zero (2013)' type: 'film' director: 'Takashi Yamazaki' released: '2013-12-21' runtime_minutes: 137 genres: - 'Drama' - 'War' countries: - 'Japan' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-eternal-zero-2013' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2404217/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Eternal Zero (2013) 2013 · 137 min · Drama, War · Japan Original title: 永遠の0 ## Synopsis The Eternal Zero is a 2013 Japanese historical war film directed, co-written, and with visual effects by Takashi Yamazaki. Based on the eponymous 2006 novel by Naoki Hyakuta, the film starts with a frame story set in 2004, where a Japanese man in his twenties learns that he is the grandson of a kamikaze military aviator who died in World War II, and then investigates the life story of his grandfather. The Eternal Zero was released in Japan on 21 December 2013, by Toho. The film grossed over ¥8.76 billion, becoming the highest-grossing Japanese film of 2014. ## Credits - **Director:** [Takashi Yamazaki](https://cinepixo.com/people/takashi-yamazaki) - **Screenplay:** [Takashi Yamazaki](https://cinepixo.com/people/takashi-yamazaki), [Tamio Hayashi](https://cinepixo.com/people/tamio-hayashi) - **Original Music Composer:** [Naoki Satō](https://cinepixo.com/people/naoki-sato) ## Cast - [Min Tanaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/min-tanaka) - [Mikijirō Hira](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikijiro-hira) - [Hirofumi Arai](https://cinepixo.com/people/hirofumi-arai) - [Mao Inoue](https://cinepixo.com/people/mao-inoue) - [Jun Fubuki](https://cinepixo.com/people/jun-fubuki) - [Shōta Sometani](https://cinepixo.com/people/shota-sometani) - [Isao Natsuyagi](https://cinepixo.com/people/isao-natsuyagi) - [Tatsuya Ueda](https://cinepixo.com/people/tatsuya-ueda) - [Gaku Hamada](https://cinepixo.com/people/gaku-hamada) - [Junichi Okada](https://cinepixo.com/people/junichi-okada) - [Kazue Fukiishi](https://cinepixo.com/people/kazue-fukiishi) - [Haruma Miura](https://cinepixo.com/people/haruma-miura) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: http://www.eienno-zero.jp Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-eternal-zero-2013 Film facts: Wikidata (Q11550375); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.