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Flight from Ashiya(Movie, 1964)

1h 40min | Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance / Love
Flight from AshiyaRating: 2.8/5 (with 22 votes)
Flight from Ashiya (aka Ashiya Kara no hiko) is a 1964 film about the U.S. Air Force's Air Rescue Service, flying from Ashiya Air Base, Japan. In this American-Japanese co-production film set in the early 1960s, a flight crew's mission is to rescue a liferaft of Japanese civilians stranded in rough seas. The film was based on the 1956 novel Rescue! by Elliott Arnold (repressed as Flight from Ashiya in 1959). It was released in Japan as Ashiya Kara no hiko. ()
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About Flight from Ashiya

Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal problems and differences to embark upon a dangerous mission to save raft-bound Japanese survivors from a murderous storm-tossed sea. As they head for their location, the film flashes back to chronicle the pasts of each pilot to make clear their mixed feelings about their upcoming assignment.

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Additional Information

Production countries: Japan, United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Japan
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 11 languages: Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 03/25/1964
Producer: Harold Hecht
Screenwriter: Waldo Salt
Director of Photography: Burnett Guffey, Joseph MacDonald
Composer: Frank Cordell
Production Designer: Eugène Lourié

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