零戦燃ゆ (1984)

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.

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Runtime: 128 mins Rating: 4.3

Cast

Tetsurō Tamba

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Masaaki Daimon

Sone

Yûzô Kayama

Manbei Shimokawa

Shigeru Kôyama

Takeshi Katô

Ugaki

Shin Takuma

Teruo Tojo

Kôji Moritsugu

Kinya Kitaoji

Jiro Horikoshi