Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 16, 1970

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Nikkatsu Corporation

Cast

Masaya Oki,Michiko Nakahata,Mitsuo Hamada,Tetsuro Tamba,Bin Moritsuka,Ryotaro Sugi,Jiro Okazaki,Akio Hasegawa,Meiko Kaji,Hisashi Kawaguchiand 11 more

Director

Kenjirō Morinaga

Writer

Kōhan Kawauchi,Ryuzo Nakanishi

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0202387