Play for Today The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner (Season 11, Episode 17)
TV Episode | 69 min | Comedy, Drama

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The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner (Season 11, Episode 17)

TV Episode | 69 min | Comedy, Drama

On August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki led the last Special Attack Force pilots across the Pacific, to crash into American ships. Thirty-five years later, the men who serviced ...See moreOn August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki led the last Special Attack Force pilots across the Pacific, to crash into American ships. Thirty-five years later, the men who serviced the aeroplanes are still meeting up for their annual dinner. Now settled into civilian jobs - dentist, baker, taxi-driver, insurance salesman - and with children and grandchildren, they bemoan the decay of traditional Japanese values. Hard liquor is imbibed, toasts raised to the memory of the heroic dead, and old rivalries resurface. The survivors' dissatisfaction with post-war life comes to a head when, in a moment of drunken inspiration, Tokkotai the airline pilot decides on a symbolic gesture to show that the kamikaze spirit lives on. Written by Peter Brynmor Roberts See less

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15 cast members

Name	Known for
John Blythe Kamiwashi Kamiwashi See fewer	This Happy Breed (1944)
Harold Goodwin Shimpu Shimpu See fewer	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Don Henderson Tokkotai Tokkotai See fewer	Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Peter Sallis Shushin Shushin See fewer	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Richard Vernon Makoto Makoto See fewer	Goldfinger (1964)
Mary Maddox Girl Singer Girl Singer See fewer	Watership Down (1978)
Patricia Prior Miss Tomishita Miss Tomishita See fewer	Doctor Who (1963)
Mark Penfold Co-Pilot Co-Pilot See fewer	Wire in the Blood (2002)
Libby Smyth Mina Mina See fewer	I Fought the Law (2003)
James McCrudden Ground Staff Ground Staff See fewer	Play for Today (1970)
John Munn Ground Staff Ground Staff See fewer	Acceptable Levels (1983)
Bernard Cullen Head Waiter Head Waiter See fewer	Dark Summer (1994)
Niall Cusack Wine Waiter Wine Waiter See fewer	The Lost City of Z (2016)
George Carroll Waiter Waiter See fewer	Play for Today (1970)
Derek Halligan Waiter Waiter See fewer	Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)