The Falcon Fighters
あゝ陸軍隼戦闘隊
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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Makoto Satō
as Lt. Takeo Kato
Yôko Namikawa
as Keiko
Toru Minegishi
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Kenjirō Ishiyama
Yūzō Hayakawa
Akio Hasegawa
Kōichi Uenoyama
Susumu Fujita
Shōgo Shimada
Ken Utsui
Shiho Fujimura
as Kato's Wife
Bontarō Miake
Kōjirō Hongō
as 2nd Lt. Ando
Jun Fujimaki
as Cho Eishun
Sei Hiraizumi
as 2nd Lt. Kihara
Takashi Nakamura
