The read
A Balasaur Score of 90 out of 100, drawn from TMDB 9/10.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
TMDB9/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Kōhan KawauchiWriter
- Ryuzo NakanishiWriter
- Kenjirō MorinagaDirector
Cast
- Ryotaro SugiShinkichi Hamamura
- Tatsuya FujiNaito
- Mitsuo HamadaSaito
- Jiro OkazakiCast
- Akio HasegawaYamada
- Masaya OkiCast
- Hisashi KawaguchiCast
- Eiji GōCast
- Masako IzumiMiho Tagawa
- Meiko KajiCast
- Ruriko ItôCast
- Michiko NakahataCast
