The Sky Crawlers (2008)

Sukai kurora 2008

Action takes place in the modern world where familiar and unfamiliar landscapes meet. Kildren are children who never grow up with empty memories. These human race fighter pilots, condemned to live forever in a frozen adolescence unless killed in action; They were hired to entertain Europeans with their skirmishes in the sky, playing a game of "war" in which the world had to keep all wars at bay. Yuichi Kannami, one of Japan's best fighter pilots who doesn't remember his past and can only fly and fight, is transferred to a new military airbase. But after meeting his new commander, the beautiful Suito Kusanagi, Yuichi's immortal soul begins to realize a disturbing truth: the meaninglessness of his life.