128 minutes
8/11/1984
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.
Jun Hashizume
as Kunio Mizushima
Yu Hayami
as Shizuko Yoshikawa
Yūzō Kayama
as Manbei Shimokawa
Tetsuro 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
Yūki Meguro
as Miyano
Yōko Minamida
as Ine Hamada
Shin Takuma
as Teruo Tojo
Bill Ross
as Douglas Macarthur
Yoshio Aoki
Shigeru Kōyama
Hiroko Maki
Shinsuke Mikimoto
Kohji Moritsugu
Shoji Nakayama
Makoto Satō