Cast
Daijirô Tsutsumi (Shoichi Hamada)Jun Hashizume (Kunio Mizushima)Yu Hayami (Shizuko Yoshikawa)Yûzô Kayama (Manbei Shimokawa)Tetsurô Tanba (Isoroku Yamamoto)Kin'ya Kitaôji (Jiro Horikoshi)Teruhiko Aoi (Kofukuda)Yoshirô AokiMasaaki Daimon (Sone)Takeshi Katô (Ugaki)Shigeru KôyamaHiroko MakiYûki Meguro (Miyano)Shinsuke MikimotoYôko Minamida (Ine Hamada)Kôji MoritsuguShôji NakayamaWilliam Ross (General MacArthur)
Director
Toshio Masuda
Synopsis
Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the testpilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who dossn't qualify for the pilot traning 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.
