The Burning Sky

Synopsis

The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The film mainly concerns the training of newly-recruited pilots and their daily life, then their subsequent fighting experiences in China. Army supported the production, providing all the authentic airplanes, training and actual actions. They even provided the older biplanes disguised as Chinese fighter planes. Obinata plays the trainer-turned-combat-leader, who is passionate and cool at the same time. All his boys love him, of course. The film is not as intense, full of sugar-coated camaraderie, until young pilots are killed in action one by one. Last twenty minutes are fairly grim, as the message of self-sacrifice is heard loud and clear.

Main Cast

Susumu Fujita

Age : 79 | Popularity : 3%

Taizō Fukami

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Katsuhiko Haida

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Seishirō Hara

Age : 119 | Popularity : 3%

Kazuo Hasegawa

Age : 76 | Popularity : 7%

Kaoru Itō

Age : 101 | Popularity : 4%

Sōji Kiyokawa

Age : 81 | Popularity : 3%

Satoshi Komori

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Yutaka Abe
Visual Effects	Visual Effects	Eiji Tsuburaya
Production	Producer	Yutaka Abe
Writing	Screenplay	Yasutaro Yagi
Camera	Director of Photography	Yoshio Miyajima
Sound	Sound	Isamu Suzuki
Lighting	Gaffer	Tsuruzô Nishikawa
Editing	Editor	Toshio Goto
Department	Role	Name

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