Introduction to the movie "THE LEGACY OF THE SUN"

The novel "THE LEGACY OF THE SUN," set in the Tama Arsenal in Inagi City (now the Tama Service Auxiliary Facility), was adapted into a film and was released nationwide starting in August 2011.
This work was written by the original author, Mr. Jiro Asada, while he was living in Inagi City, and the city of Musashikodama depicted in the story is modeled after Inagi City. Additionally, many landscapes reminiscent of Inagi City also appear.
The DVD of this work is available for purchase and rental, so please take a look.

Story

On August 10, 1945, just before the end of the war.
Major Masaharu Mashiba (Masato Sakai) of the Imperial Army is summoned by the military top brass, including Army Minister Anan, bearing a significant secret mission.
To secretly transport and hide the treasure of MacArthur, amounting to 90 billion yen (approximately 200 trillion yen in today's currency), which General Yamashita had seized.
This treasure was the military funds entrusted by Anan and others, who realized the defeat, for the reconstruction of their homeland.
Mashiba, along with Lieutenant Koizumi (Seiji Fukushi) and Sergeant Mochizuki (Shido Nakamura), carries out the top-secret mission.
Twenty young girls are summoned as part of the labor mobilization.
Unbeknownst to them, they are complicit in hiding the treasure for the sake of their country, but as the end of the mission approaches, the higher-ups issue a merciless order to them.
What will be the fate of the girls? And what will happen to the treasure?

Work Information

• Original Work Asada Jiro
  Works… "The Railway Man (Poppoya)", "Riding the Subway (Metro)", "The Pleiades in the Blue" and others
• Director Kiyoshi Sasabe
  Works… "Half a Confession," "Sea Without Exit," etc.
• Cast Masato Sakai, Shido Nakamura, Seiji Fukushi, Yusuke Santamaria, Kaoru Yachigusa, and others

Distribution

Kadokawa Pictures
(c)2011 "THE LEGACY OF THE SUN" Production Committee