In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever more restless. He can no longer stand his soft "behind-the- gun" role of munition factory worker. School-mates one after another are going to the front, where he feels he should be. The last straw is an official report of his father's death in the Battle of Attu in the Aleutian Islands. He rushes to the naval air corps training camp at Tsuchiura along with his close school-mates Naito, Yamada, Saito and Tagawa as Volunteer pilot trainees leaving his mother and sweetheart weeping and helpless.
Kōhan Kawauchi
Writer
Ryuzo Nakanishi
Writer
Kenjirō Morinaga
Director
Ryotaro Sugi
Shinkichi Hamamura
Tatsuya Fuji
Naito
Mitsuo Hamada
Saito
Jiro Okazaki
Akio Hasegawa
Yamada
Masaya Oki
Hisashi Kawaguchi
Eiji Gō
Masako Izumi
Miho Tagawa
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Wolf Hound65%
Jacknife63%
Battleground67%
The Scarlet and the Black70%
For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada68%
The Beast70%
King Rat71%
Boudica58%
The Young Lions68%
The Codes of War61%
The Kill Team65%
Miracle at St. Anna61%
Behold a Pale Horse60%
Sahara64%
They Were Expendable65%
The Long Voyage Home66%
House of Bamboo62%
Field of Lost Shoes61%
Operation Pacific61%
