
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.
The Burning Sky
May 10, 1940
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Cast (10)

Susumu Fujita
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Taizō Fukami
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Katsuhiko Haida
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Seishirō Hara
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Kazuo Hasegawa
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Kaoru Itō
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Sōji Kiyokawa
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Satoshi Komori
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Jun Maki
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Den Obinata
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Crew (16)
Directing

Yutaka Abe
Director
Writing

Komatsu Kiyamura
Story

Yasutaro Yagi
Screenplay
Production

Yutaka Abe
Producer
Sound

Fumio Hayasaka
Original Music Composer

Ichiro Fujiyama
Theme Song Performance

Isamu Suzuki
Sound

Kosaku Yamada
Songs

Kosaku Yamada
Original Music Composer
Art

Takeo Kita
Production Design
Camera

Yoshio Miyajima
Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up
No data availableCrew

Eiji Tsuburaya
Special Effects
Editing

Toshio Goto
Editor
Lighting

Tsuruzô Nishikawa
Gaffer
Visual Effects

Eiji Tsuburaya
Visual Effects

Eiji Tsuburaya
Visual Effects Director