| Overview: | In August, 1945, the American attacks towards Japan increased in harshness. Atomic bombs were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one after the another. On Tinian Island in the Southern Pacific Ocean, the third atomic bomb was ready now. planned to be dropped over Tokyo, which would have meant effectively the annihilation of Japan as a nation.
A Japanese navy submarine, I-507 carrying a secret weapon called Lorelei System, which was actually a captured German submarine, was given almost an impossible mission to intercept the U.S. troop ship carrying the third atomic bomb, after breaking through the defense line of the U.S. Navy's Pacific fleet. Captain Asakura (Shinichi Tsutsumi), the operation department head of Japanese Navy command selected Lieutenant Commander Shinichi Masami (Koji Yakusho) as the captain of this submarine . Masami had been given a sinecure position as he once opposed to the navy's increasing reliance on suicide tactics.
Among the hurriedly gathered crew of this submarine. there was a girl named Paula (Yu Kashii) on board. She was the only operator who was able to start the Lorelei system. A crew of 70, who were actually not sufficient enough to operate this submarine, started out for a final battle not only for the sake of saving their own country but also in some way, somebody or something to save privately, such as their families, their lovers, or a place to remember being with his dead wife . Each one of the crew fought embracing their individual hope for the future. They had only one hour and 15 minutes left, until the release of the atomic bomb.
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