Attack Squadron! (Japanese: 太平洋の翼, Hepburn: 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.
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Release
Attack Squadron! was released in Japan on 3 January 1963 where it was distributed by Toho. The film was Toho's second highest-grossing film of the year and the 9th highest-grossing domestic film production in Japan in 1963.
The film was released theatrically in the United States by Toho International with English subtitles on February 1, 1975. It was released to home video by Combat Home Video in 1988 as Kamikaze with an English-language dub. Stuart Galbraith IV commented on this release, stating that it was panned-and-scanned with "some of the worst telecine work ever done; the entire film appears to have been mastered showing only the extreme left side of the image."
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 Hirata as 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