Zero
零戦燃ゆ
Release: 1984-08-11
·Runtime: 128m
·★ 4.2
War
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.
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
TOHO
Cast
Shigeru Kōyama
Shinsuke Mikimoto
Yūzō Kayama
as Manbei Shimokawa
Tetsuro Tamba
as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Daijiro Tsutsumi
as Shoichi Hamada
Teruhiko Aoi
as Kofukuda
Hiroko Maki
Shoji Nakayama
Makoto Satō
Jun Hashizume
as Kunio Mizushima
Masaaki Daimon
as Sone
Yūki Meguro
as Miyano
Kinya Kitaoji
as Jiro Horikoshi
Yōko Minamida
as Ine Hamada
Shin Takuma
as Teruo Tojo
Kohji Moritsugu
Yu Hayami
as Shizuko Yoshikawa
Takeshi Katō
as Ugaki
