Battle Troop
5.3
Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their torpedo techniques. Mikami is posted as a staff officer at a base on an island in the Pacific. Kawakami and Murakami later joins him as the base squardron is reinforced. The enemy task force approaches the island and all three of them attack the fleet, killing themselves in the process.
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Cast
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Susumu Fujita
Mikami
Known for
The Hidden Fortress
Sanshiro Sugata
Masayuki Mori
Kawakami
Known for
Rashomon
Ugetsu
Denjirô Ôkôchi
Asakazu Nakai
Kajirō Yamamoto
Also in
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
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Haruo Mura
Akitake Kōno
Murakami
Known for
Sansho the Bailiff
Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two
Seiichi Suzuki
Denjirō Ōkōchi
Known for
Sanshiro Sugata
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
Yoshimi Hirano
Masao Mishima
Known for
Harakiri
Late Spring
Hiroshi Suzuki
Kajirō Yamamoto Director · Seiichi Suzuki Composer Asakazu Nakai Cinematographer
First release December 7, 1944 · Produced in Japan · Original title 雷撃隊出動
Production
TOHO
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Japan
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Original title
雷撃隊出動
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · December 7, 1944
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No release date listed for United States.
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