The Eternal Zero (film)
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| Directed by | Takashi Yamazaki |
| Screenplay by | Takashi Yamazaki Tamio Hayashi |
| Based on | The Eternal Zero by Naoki Hyakuta |
| Produced by | Taichi Ueda Shūji Abe Chikahiro Ando |
| Starring | Junichi Okada Haruma Miura Mao Inoue |
| Cinematography | Kōzō Shibasaki |
| Edited by | Ryūji Miyajima |
| Music by | Naoki Satō |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 144 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Budget | ¥1 billion ($10.25 million) |
| Box office | $84.5 million |
The Eternal Zero (Japanese: 永遠の0, Hepburn: Eien no 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.