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Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky
決戰の大空へ1943
- Kunio Watanabe
- 1h 21m
- May 1, 1943 · Japan
Overview
Young men endure challenging flight training in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Army and Navy. By the time of the filming, the pressure of the war had led the government to shorten the training and expand the age range of the recruits. Yokaren was highly selective, and thus an object of great fascination and desire for boys and young men. In this Navy–sponsored film, Setsuko Hara plays the daughter of a family that often entertains recruits on their days off—a surrogate sister to many trainees. Her fragile younger brother aspires to join the program, but is rejected. With perseverance and much support from Hara and their mother, he surmounts his weaknesses and becomes a flier.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 1, 1943
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Cast
- Setsuko Hara,Minoru Takada,Yataro Kurokawa,Masaru Kodaka,Yuriko Hanabusa,Akitake Kōno,Sōji Kiyokawa
- Director
- Kunio Watanabe
- Writer
- Toshio Yasumi
- Producer
- Ryôzô Yamashita
- Cinematography
- Kikuzō Kawasaki
- Music
- Noboru Itō
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
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