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Jet Air Base 101

12/15/1957

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1hr 23min

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War

,Drama

STORY

The first batch of flight control officer candidates, full of yearning for the sky, are assembled at the 101st Air Regiment base. Nakata, Sato, and the other cadets undergo intensive training under Captain Kotani, a famous pilot, but gradually begin to resent his strict leadership. A youthful story that vividly portrays the young pilots of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force who place their hopes in the sky. Japan's first full-length film about jet aviation, it was shot on location at the Hamamatsu Air Self-Defense Force Base over an extended period of time, with dozens of jets being mobilized for the filming.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
  • Hitomi Nakahara
  • Ken Takakura
  • Kenji Imai
  • Michiko Hoshi

    Director

  • Tsuneo Kobayashi

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Toei Company

    Production Countries

  • Japan

LANGUAGES

  • Japanese

Cast

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

Hitomi Nakahara

Reiko Suzuki

Ken Takakura

Jiro Nakata

Kenji Imai

Shuji Sato

Michiko Hoshi

Toshiko Sato

Jun Usami

Base Commander Kabashima

Mitsue Komiya

Miyoko

Akiko Kazami

Takako Kotani

Kenji Susukida

Takashi Kanda

Ono