Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who don't qualify for the pilot training and instead joins the ground crew. It chronicles the entire history of the famous fighter from the first prototype test flights all through the war.
Cast
Jun Hashizume
Kunio Mizushima
Yu Hayami
Shizuko Yoshikawa
Yūzō Kayama
Manbei Shimokawa
Tetsuro Tamba
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Kinya Kitaoji
Jiro Horikoshi
Daijiro Tsutsumi
Shoichi Hamada
Teruhiko Aoi
Kofukuda
Masaaki Daimon
Sone
Takeshi Katō
Ugaki
Yūki Meguro
Miyano
Yōko Minamida
Ine Hamada
Shin Takuma
Teruo Tojo
Bill Ross
Douglas Macarthur
Yoshio Aoki
Unknown
Shigeru Kōyama
Unknown
Hiroko Maki
Unknown
Shinsuke Mikimoto
Unknown
Kohji Moritsugu
Unknown
Shoji Nakayama
Unknown
Makoto Satō
Unknown
Crew
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