Zero (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.
Director: Toshio Masuda
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Jun Hashizume as Kunio Mizushima |
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Yu Hayami as Shizuko Yoshikawa |
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Yūzō Kayama as Manbei Shimokawa |
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Tetsuro Tamba as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto |
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Kinya Kitaoji as Jiro Horikoshi |
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Daijiro Tsutsumi as Shoichi Hamada |
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Teruhiko Aoi as Kofukuda |
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Masaaki Daimon as Sone |
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Takeshi Katō as Ugaki |
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Yūki Meguro as Miyano |
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Yōko Minamida as Ine Hamada |
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Shin Takuma as Teruo Tojo |
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Bill Ross as Douglas Macarthur |
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Yoshio Aoki as |
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Shigeru Kōyama as |
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Hiroko Maki as |
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Shinsuke Mikimoto as |
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Kohji Moritsugu as |
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Shoji Nakayama as |
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Makoto Satō as |
| Camera | Rokurô Nishigaki | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Toshio Masuda | Director |
| Editing | Yoshitami Kuroiwa | Editor |
| Writing | Ryōzō Kasahara | Writer |
| Crew | Koichi Kawakita | Special Effects |
| Writing | Kunio Yanagida | Writer |
| Production | Tomoyuki Tanaka | Producer |
| Sound | Harumi Ibe | Music |
