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Zero

Zero

19845.42h 8m

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.

Directed by Toshio Masuda
Written by Ryōzō Kasahara, Kunio Yanagida
Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka
Box OfficeBudget: $6.3MRevenue: $2.5M

Top Cast

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Jun Hashizume

Kunio Mizushima

Yu Hayami

Yu Hayami

Shizuko Yoshikawa

Yūzō Kayama

Yūzō Kayama

Manbei Shimokawa

Tetsuro Tamba

Tetsuro Tamba

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Kinya Kitaoji

Kinya Kitaoji

Jiro Horikoshi

Daijiro Tsutsumi

Daijiro Tsutsumi

Shoichi Hamada

Teruhiko Aoi

Teruhiko Aoi

Kofukuda

Masaaki Daimon

Masaaki Daimon

Sone

Takeshi Katō

Takeshi Katō

Ugaki

Yūki Meguro

Yūki Meguro

Miyano

About Zero

Zero is a war film released in 1984. Directed by Toshio Masuda, it stars Jun Hashizume, Yu Hayami, Yūzō Kayama. 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.

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