Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream is eventually realized when he is transferred to the new and powerful destroyer Yukikaze which he helped to build. When the Pacific War breaks out Yukikaze performs valiantly in the South Pacific, and while on shore leave, Kida meets and falls in love with Yukiko, younger sister of his commander.
Isamu Nagato
Shima Iwashita
Teruo Yoshida
Homare Suguro
Shinichirō Mikami
Bunta Sugawara
Kōji Matsubara
Kumeko Urabe
Kinuko Obata
Shinsuke Mikimoto
Ken Sudo
Keijirō Morozumi
Hiroshi Aoyama
Ken Mishima
Hideo Hongo
Yukari Uehara
Kan Yanagiya
Zenichi Inagawa
Shoji Sayama
Hiroyuki Wachi
Akira Yamanouchi
Tetsuro Tamba
Takayuki Akutagawa