Jet Air Base 101

Jet Air Base 101 — Plot

The first batch of flight control officer candidates, full of yearning for the sky, are assembled at the 101st Air Regiment base. Nakata, Sato, and the other cadets undergo intensive training under Captain Kotani, a famous pilot, but gradually begin to resent his strict leadership. A youthful story that vividly portrays the young pilots of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force who place their hopes in the sky. Japan's first full-length film about jet aviation, it was shot on location at the Hamamatsu Air Self-Defense Force Base over an extended period of time, with dozens of jets being mobilized for the filming.

• Release date
• December 15, 1957
• Runtime
• 83 min
• Genres
• War, Drama
• Director
• Tsuneo Kobayashi

Jet Air Base 101 — Cast

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata Lieutenant Colonel Kotani Hitomi Nakahara Reiko Suzuki Ken Takakura Jiro Nakata Kenji Imai Shuji Sato Michiko Hoshi Toshiko Sato Jun Usami Base Commander Kabashima Mitsue Komiya Miyoko Akiko Kazami Takako Kotani