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19841984
2h 8m

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Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the testpilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of on... Read allTwo young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the testpilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who dossn't qualify for the pilot traning and instead joins the ground ... Read allTwo young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the testpilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who dossn't qualify for the pilot traning and instead joins the ground crew. It chronicles the entire history of the famous fighter from the first prototype test... Read all

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6.1/10

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The german version only runs 100m. It was cut by the distributor to emphasize more action. Mainly missing is the backstory about Hamada's last visit to his parents before going off to being stationed with the Kamikazesquadron and the triangle love story that disrupts his friendship to the mechanic.

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7/10

Follows the war in the Pacific well.

I first saw this movie when I rented it at Blockbuster video in the 1980's...I am a self-appointed student on all things related to WW2 and this book follows the same events as described by the real life ace and author Saburo Sakai. While the film is NOT intended as a biography of he nor any other particular pilit, the action and historical sequences are portrayed as Sakai described them. The Japanese have always been very good at model making and they have used very good models thruout of the aircraft used in the different phases of the war...so we won't be plagued with shots of AT-6 trainers made to look like the Mitsubishi fighter. Also in the film are representations of the Grumman F4F Wildcat, Curtiss P-40, Martin B-26, Boeing B 17, the Mitsubishi"Betty", etc. The angle of turns were not yet mastered yet for this film, and those of us who can fly will notice this, but IMHO it does not detract from the film.

The actors speak Japanese but the version I saw was dubbed in English...and this will ALWAYS make the language timing seem "off" in places. Like most modern war flicks, this film also has the near obligatory "love interest".

This tile may be difficult to find because I have tried for years to acquire a copy for myself (in English)...and some enterprising business might see my post and see a potential to fulfill a need for the Japanese side of this historical event?

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