Zero

Zero

128 mins | War | Aug. 11, 1984

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.

Zero

128 mins | War | Aug. 11, 1984

Zero
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.
Producers Toho Company, Ltd.
Original title 零戦燃ゆ
Directors Toshio Masuda
Writers Kunio Yanagida, Ryōzō Kasahara

Cast

Jun Hashizume

as Kunio Mizushima

Yu Hayami

as Shizuko Yoshikawa

Yûzô Kayama

as Manbei Shimokawa

Tetsurō Tamba

as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Kinya Kitaoji

as Jiro Horikoshi

Daijiro Tsutsumi

as Shoichi Hamada

Teruhiko Aoi

as Kofukuda

Masaaki Daimon

as Sone

Takeshi Katō

as Ugaki

Yûki Meguro

as Miyano

Yôko Minamida

as Ine Hamada

Shin Takuma

as Teruo Tojo

Bill Ross

as Douglas Macarthur