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Jet Air Base 101

0.0 83 mins War   Drama   1957
Toei Company  
Director(s): Tsuneo Kobayashi

Release Date: 15 Sun, Dec 1957

The first batch of flight control officer candidates, full of yearning for the sky, are assembled at the 101st Air Regiment base. Nakata, Sato, and the other cadets undergo intensive training under Captain Kotani, a famous pilot, but gradually begin to resent his strict leadership. A youthful story that vividly portrays the young pilots of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force who place their hopes in the sky. Japan's first full-length film about jet aviation, it was shot on location at the Hamamatsu Air Self-Defense Force Base over an extended period of time, with dozens of jets being mobilized for the filming.

Casts of Jet Air Base 101

Hitomi Nakahara

as Reiko Suzuki

Ken Takakura

as Jiro Nakata

Kenji Imai

as Shuji Sato

Michiko Hoshi

as Toshiko Sato

Jun Usami

as Base Commander Kabashima

Mitsue Komiya

as Miyoko

Akiko Kazami

as Takako Kotani

Takashi Kanda

as Ono

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