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The Burning Sky

The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The film mainly concerns the training of newly-recruited pilots and their daily life, then their subsequent fighting experiences in China. Army supported the production, providing all the authentic airplanes, training and actual actions. They even provided the older biplanes disguised as Chinese fighter planes. Obinata plays the trainer-turned-combat-leader, who is passionate and cool at the same time. All his boys love him, of course. The film is not as intense, full of sugar-coated camaraderie, until young pilots are killed in action one by one. Last twenty minutes are fairly grim, as the message of self-sacrifice is heard loud and clear.

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The Burning Sky

May 10, 1940
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Crew (16)

Directing

Yutaka Abe
Director

Writing

Production

Yutaka Abe
Producer

Sound

Fumio Hayasaka
Original Music Composer
Ichiro Fujiyama
Theme Song Performance
Kosaku Yamada
Original Music Composer

Art

Takeo Kita
Production Design

Camera

Yoshio Miyajima
Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

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Crew

Eiji Tsuburaya
Special Effects

Editing

Toshio Goto
Editor

Lighting

Visual Effects

Eiji Tsuburaya
Visual Effects
Eiji Tsuburaya
Visual Effects Director