
Red Tails(2012)
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.



Koji Tsuruta
First Lieutenant Jinnouchi

Ken Takakura
First Lieutenant Kenmochi

Hiroki Matsukata
Second Sublieutenant Shiratori

Sonny Chiba
Second Sublieutenant Hanzawa

Isao Natsuyagi
Second Sublieutenant Nanjô

Kunio Murai
Second Sublieutenant Yui

Yoshiko Sakuma
Noriko Nanjô

Sumiko Fuji
Reiko Shiratori

Asao Koike
First Lieutenant Ôoka

Kenjirō Ishiyama
Senzô Shiratori
Classmates is a drama, war film released in 1967 exploring themes of world war ii, fighter pilot, pilot, kamikaze, 1940s, brutal boot camp. Directed by Sadao Nakajima, it stars Koji Tsuruta, Ken Takakura, Hiroki Matsukata. A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.
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In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.

World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.

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A cocky U.S. Army Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he's sent back to Earth by a heavenly General with a new assignment.

A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from dive-bombing German fighters by a cocky, reckless teenager. He finds them refuge in an abandoned house, but despite the fact that the family quickly comes to be depending much on his cunning and survival abilities, their cohabitation proves uneasy.

Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.

It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife of a fabric merchant, is devoted to her husband but is beginning to suspect he’s up to something. Soon she allows herself to be drawn into a game in which she enigmatically conceals her intentions.

Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.