Ami Touma appears on stage to greet the audience on the opening day of the film "Yukikaze"

Actor Ami Touma attended the opening day stage greeting for the film "Yukikaze" (directed by Toshihisa Yamada) held in Tokyo on August 15th. She revealed that it was the first time she met Hiroshi Tamaki, who plays her brother in the film, during the stage greeting that day.

Touma plays Hayase Sachi, the younger sister of Hayase Kohei (played by Tamaki), a senior corporal on the destroyer Yukikaze. There is a scene in the film where Sachi reads a letter while waiting for her brother to return. Touma recalled, "Nowadays we have convenient things like smartphones, and we can hear his voice and see his face whenever we want to talk, but of course there was nothing like that back then. When you send a letter, you don't get a reply right away, it takes time. I was very anxious and felt the gap with now while filming."

She continued, "I had never met Tamaki-san on set, and today was the first time we'd met, so I was finally able to meet my brother," to which Tamaki responded with a smile, "Nice to meet you."

Regarding the filming, he said, "I had the opportunity to read the letter while watching a video of my brother. I remember that the filming went well, as it mixed the sense of distance between wanting to meet him but not being able to, and the real sense of distance between not having met him yet."

The main cast members, Yutaka Takenouchi Yutaka, Daiken Okudaira, Tanaka Rena, Kiichi Nakai, screenwriter Hasegawa Yasuo, and director Yamada also appeared on stage to greet the audience.

The film depicts on a grand scale the lives and fates of people who struggled to survive in the turbulent times that stretched from the Pacific War to the postwar period and on into the present day. Based on historical fact, it brings to life as fiction the many roles played by the Yukikaze, the only one of the 38 main destroyers to survive until the end of the war without sinking and known as the "unsinkable ship."