July 1943 during the Pacific War. Certain islands in the frigid North Pacific Ocean was making a withdrawal of U.S. military attack in the garrison of Japanese soldiers. Ta-Fa was completed and the final (landing craft) that left the island when the ship is damaged by military attacks, the beginning of the flooding. Commander Maj. Serizawa is for a gun Matsumoto Ju Cao Fei is forming two wounded soldiers, forced to go back to the island in order to lighten the boat, the man who beat up the Sono Serizawa. Lieutenant is the captain of the Asahi Matsumoto. Means to return to Japan for more than face a firing squad on charges of rebellion and not a superior officer, Asahi jumped into the sea back to the island itself. To save the boys, chose to remain on the island.
Then 16 years later. Structure chrysanthemums and Matsumoto, chairman of the heavy electric machinery large and successful business, the Asahi was found in a frozen state at the cave on the island after years of searching.