Aegis
2005
127 minutes
Overview
The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No sooner is the Isokaze on open water, however, then the FTG reveal themselves to be terrorist stowaways who kill the ship's captain, send the rest of the crew overboard and take control of the vessel. The ship is carrying a secret biological weapon which the terrorists are now threatening to use to level Tokyo! Only a stowaway NCO, Sengoko (played by Sanada Hiroyuki from Ring and Twilight Samurai) is in a position to stop them - but does he really have what it takes to save the day? Playing like a cross between a sea-faring version of Top Gun and Die Hard, director Sakamoto Junji shows that it's not just Hollywood that can produce thrill-a-minute action spectaculars.
Top Cast
Hiroyuki Sanada
Hisashi Sengoku
Akira Terao
Hirotaka Miyazu
Koichi Sato
Diasuke Atsumi
Kiichi Nakai
Yong Fa
Ryo Katsuji
Kou Kisaragi
Chae Min-seo
Jon-hee
Eisaku Yoshida
Isamu Takenaka
Shosuke Tanihara
Yudai Kazama
Masanobu Ando
Don-chol
Yoshio Harada
Koichiro Kajimoto
Mieko Harada
Yoshie Miyazu
Ittoku Kishibe
Kazuma Seto
Claude Maki
Yoshiaki Munakata
Shunsuke Matsuoka
Jun Hashizume
Sei Hiraizumi
Mansaku Ikeuchi
Miyuki Komatsu
Ken Mitsuishi
Ryu Morioka
Ikuji Nakamura
Seiroku Nakazawa
Katsuhiko Sasaki
Takashi Shikauchi
Kosuke Toyohara
Kenichi Yajima