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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 by	Shue Matsubayashi
Screenplay by	Katsuya Suzaki[1]
Produced by	Tomoyuki Tanaka Yasuyoshi Tajitsu[1]
Starring	Toshiro Mifune Yuzo Kayama Takashi Shimura Yosuke Natsuki
Cinematography	Takeshi Suzuki[1]
Edited by	Yoshitami Kuroiwa[1]
Music by	Ikuma Dan[1]
Production company	Toho[1]
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	3 January 1963 (1963-01-03) (Japan)
Running time	101 minutes[1]
Country	Japan

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

• Toshiro Mifune as Senda
• Yūzō Kayama as Taki
• Yosuke Natsuki as Aaka
• Makoto Satō as Yano
• Kō Nishimura as Inaba
• Yuriko Hoshi as Miyako Tamai
• Ryō Ikebe as Mihara
• Akihiko Hirataas Katō
• Ichirō Nakatani as Nakamura
• Kiyoshi Atsumi as Tange
• Takashi Shimura as Koshirō Oikawa
• Jun Tazaki as Nakama
• Seiji Miyaguchi as Takijirō Ōnishi
• Susumu Fujita as Seiichi Itō

References

Footnotes

Sources

External links

• Attack Squadron! at IMDb

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