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
Kohji Moritsugu
Shoji Nakayama
Yūzō Kayama
as Manbei Shimokawa
Teruhiko Aoi
as Kofukuda
Yūki Meguro
as Miyano
Yōko Minamida
as Ine Hamada
Kinya Kitaoji
as Jiro Horikoshi
Daijiro Tsutsumi
as Shoichi Hamada
Masaaki Daimon
as Sone
Shin Takuma
as Teruo Tojo
Shigeru Kōyama
Hiroko Maki
Yu Hayami
as Shizuko Yoshikawa
Tetsuro Tamba
as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Takeshi Katō
as Ugaki
Makoto Satō
Jun Hashizume
as Kunio Mizushima
Shinsuke Mikimoto