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In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps trains new volunteers from the Army's Infantry to become Japan's next generation of fighter pilots at the Tokorozawa Flying School. Flying Kawasaki Ko-4 biplanes, Lt. Katō will train both friend and future foe alike. But as war in China breaks out, Katō now in command of the 5th Rentai will take his untested men flying antiquated planes into aerial combat against the Chinese Air Force who is now headed by Lt. Cho who Katō both earlier befriended and personally trained himself. While Katō's squadron ultimately achieves air superiority over the skies of Manchuria, it comes at a high price in men to which each loss carries a heavy burden that he alone must carry. As the war widens into the Second World War, Captain Katō must battle an ever advancing array of deadlier new enemies flying ever more modern fighter planes.
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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 1969-11-01
- video_camera_front Companies Daiei Film
- timer Runtime: 100 Mins
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- info IMDB ID tt0210949
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Makoto Satō
Lt. Takeo Kato
Kōjirō Hongō
2nd Lt. Ando
Ken Utsui
Jun Fujimaki
Cho Eishun
Shiho Fujimura
Kato's Wife
Yôko Namikawa
Keiko
Toru Minegishi
Akio Hasegawa
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Kenjirō Ishiyama
Bontarō Miake
Yoshirô Kitahara
Takashi Nakamura
Osamu Ōkawa
Kōichi Uenoyama
Jutarō Hojo
Susumu Fujita
Shōgo Shimada
Yūzō Hayakawa
Sei Hiraizumi
2nd Lt. Kihara
groups Crew
Kimio Watanabe
Director of Photography
Masaichi Nagata
Executive Producer
Toyo Suzuki
Editor
Koichi Takahashi
Art Direction
Shoichi Uehara
Lighting Technician
Yukio Okumura
Sound Recordist
Katsuya Susaki
Screenplay
Mitsuo Murayama
Director
Seitaro Omori
Original Music Composer
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