

Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who don't qualify for the pilot training 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.

Shoichi Hamada
The original title is "零戦燃ゆ" (JA).
The film had a budget of $6.3M but only grossed $2.5M, losing $3.8M at the box office.
The runtime is 128 minutes (2h 8m).
The film was directed by Toshio Masuda.
The screenplay was written by Kunio Yanagida and Ryōzō Kasahara.
Cinematography was handled by Rokurô Nishigaki.
This title is listed on IMDb as tt0088449.
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零戦燃ゆ
Released
日本語
Japan
$6,250,000
$2,500,000
