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.

• Release date
• August 11, 1984
• Runtime
• 128 min
• Genres
• War
• Director
• Toshio Masuda

Cast

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Jun Hashizume Kunio Mizushima Yu Hayami Shizuko Yoshikawa Yūzō Kayama Manbei Shimokawa Tetsuro Tamba Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto Kinya Kitaoji Jiro Horikoshi Daijiro Tsutsumi Shoichi Hamada Teruhiko Aoi Kofukuda Masaaki Daimon Sone