Zero (1984)

5.8/10 128 min War

Overview

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.

Cast

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

Takeshi Katō

Ugaki

Yūki Meguro

Miyano

Yōko Minamida

Ine Hamada

Shin Takuma

Teruo Tojo

Shigeru Kōyama

Hiroko Maki

Shinsuke Mikimoto

Kohji Moritsugu

Shoji Nakayama

Makoto Satō

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