Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Setsuko Hara

Age : 95 | Popularity : 6%

Minoru Takada

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Yataro Kurokawa

Age : 73 | Popularity : 5%

Masaru Kodaka

Age : 95 | Popularity : 7%

Yuriko Hanabusa

Age : 69 | Popularity : 3%

Akitake Kôno

Age : 66 | Popularity : 5%

Sōji Kiyokawa

Age : 81 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Screenplay	Toshio Yasumi
Directing	Director	Kunio Watanabe
Camera	Director of Photography	Kikuzô Kawasaki
Art	Art Direction	Teruaki Abe
Sound	Original Music Composer	Noboru Itô
Production	Producer	Ryôzô Yamashita
Department	Role	Name

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