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3 January 1963 (Japan)
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Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes...
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Directed by | |||
| Shûe Matsubayashi | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Shinobu Hashimoto | writer | |
| Shin'ichi Sekizawa | writer | |
| Katsuya Susaki | writer | |
| Tomoyuki Tanaka | writer | |
Produced by | |||
| Yasuyoshi Tajitsu | .... | producer | |
| Tomoyuki Tanaka | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Ikuma Dan | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Takao Saitô | |||
| Takashi Suzuki | |||
| Kazuo Yamada | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Kôichi Iwashita | |||
| Yoshitami Kuroiwa | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Takeo Kita | |||
Art Direction by | |||
| Takeo Kimura | |||
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Kôji Kajita | .... | assistant director | |
Sound Department | |||
| Minoru Kaneyama | .... | sound effects editor | |
| Hisashi Shimonaga | .... | sound effects | |
| Shin Watarai | .... | sound recordist | |
| Shin Watarai | .... | sound | |
Special Effects by | |||
| Teruyoshi Nakano | .... | assistant special effects director | |
| Eiji Tsuburaya | .... | special effects director | |
| Akira Watanabe | .... | special effects art director | |
Visual Effects by | |||
| Sadamasa Arikawa | .... | special effects camera | |
| Kuichirô Kishida | .... | special effects lighting | |
| Yukio Manoda | .... | special effects camera | |
| Hiroshi Mukoyama | .... | special effects opticals | |
| Sokei Tomioka | .... | special effects camera | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Chôshirô Ishii | .... | lighting technician | |
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- Combat Video (USA) (video)
- Toho Company (Japan)
- Toho Company (USA) (subtitled)
- Video City Productions (USA) (VHS)
- WR Filmes (Brazil) (VHS)
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As the plot line says, it's not a movie about kamikaze pilots, but only about fighting pilots during the last months of the war against the US army. I should say an ordinary war movie, but from the Japanese side. The characters are well described, as an American movie should have made too. Toshiro Mifune plays hare a commanding officer who fights against the idea to send pilots to death as kamikaze . The air battle sequences are effective for the period, but there is nothing special to say about this movie. I could have expected more powerful, poignant sequences as we saw in 2007 in Clint Eastwood's LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA.
Japanese movie industry is well known for making very depressing films, a reflection of the pain and tragedies Japan has lived since 1945.
But it's a very hard to find movie. Worth watching although.