The Silent Service — Season 1, Episode 1: Yamanami Crushes
Drama, War & Politics • 56 min • 1 season, 8 episodes • ★ 6.4/10
Episode synopsis
The Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine Yamanami collides with a U.S. nuclear submarine, crushing all 76 people on board, including its CO, Shiro Kaieda. Hiroshi Fukamachi, CO of the MSDF diesel submarine Tatsunami, becomes suspicious of the accident and analyzes the recorded data of the collision.
About The Silent Service
An MSDF submarine collides with a U.S. nuclear submarine, crushing all 76 people on board, including its CO, Shiro Kaieda. However, the crew survives. The accident is a cover story to get the MSDF submarine's crew on board the Seabat, a nuclear submarine secretly built by the Japanese and U.S. governments. However, Kaieda loads the Seabat with nuclear missiles and suddenly mutinies and flees.