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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.
Keywords
world war ii
Casts

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

Meiko Kaji

Ruriko Itô
Michiko Nakahata

Harumi Sone

Yoshirō Aoki
Kiyotaka Mitsugi
Bin Moritsuka

Yoshi Katō

Ryoichi Tamagawa

Kōji Nanbara
Commander Akiyama

Ryōhei Uchida

Tetsuro Tamba
Crews
Ryuzo Nakanishi
Writer

Kōhan Kawauchi
Writer
Masayoshi Ikeda
Music
Yoshihiro Yamazaki
Cinematography
Kenjirō Morinaga
Director
Takeharu Sakaguchi
Art Direction
Isao Hayashi
Assistant Director
Backdrops & Posters

