Kamikaze: An Untold History; Irvine Welsh: The Next Chapter

“Kamikaze: An Untold History is a documentary by the Japanese public broadcaster NHK that could have been a very powerful film at 60 minutes but is still impactful at an exhaustive hour and a half.”
Jack Seale, The Guardian

“This grimly fascinating documentary tried to explain the mentality, not only of the pilots who flew to certain death, but of the nation that encouraged them to do it.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail

“Kamikaze: An Untold History, a sombre, Japanese-made film which takes a wholly compassionate view, shows the reality. Ordered to carry out suicide missions on the US fleet, or pressured to volunteer, they had little choice but to accept their task in a society where conformity was everything.”
Anita Singh, The Telegraph

“Now that Martin Amis, another chronicler of the seedy and sulphurous, has left us I cannot think of another living British writer about whom a half-hour telly interview would create such anticipation, and in Irvine Welsh: The Next Chapter he delivered a fusillade of observations that for the most part felt entirely sensible. BBC culture editor Katie Razzall didn’t really need to do much apart from read from a list of pertinent questions, which she did perfectly well. But even just hitting the top notes in a duet for one, as he did across this half-hour, Welsh was dazzling.”
Ben Dowell, The Times