Attack Squadron!

Attack Squadron! (太平洋の翼, Taiheiyō no Tsubasa, transl. "Wings of the Pacific") is a 1963 Japanese film directed by Shue Matsubayashi, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film is about Lt. Colonel Senda (Toshiro Mifune) who commands three fighter squadrons, eventually being dominated by Allied forces in June 1944.[1][2]

Attack Squadron!
Directed byShue Matsubayashi
Screenplay byKatsuya Suzaki[1]
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyTakeshi Suzuki[1]
Edited byYoshitami Kuroiwa[1]
Music byIkuma Dan[1]
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • 3 January 1963 (1963-01-03) (Japan)
Running time
101 minutes[1]
CountryJapan

Release

Attack Squadron! was released in Japan on 3 January 1963 where it was distributed by Toho.[1] The film was Toho's second highest-grossing film of the year and the 9th highest-grossing domestic film production in Japan in 1963.[1]

The film was released theatrically in the United States by Toho International with English subtitles on February 1, 1975.[1] It was released to home video by Combat Home Video in 1988 as Kamikaze with an English-language dub.[1] Stuart Galbraith IV commented on this release, stating that it was panned-and-scanned with "some of the wore telecine work ever done; the entire film appears to have been mastered showing only the extreme left side of the image."[1]

Cast

References

Footnotes
  1. Galbraith IV 2008, p. 198.
  2. "太平洋の翼". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 27 December 2020.

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