Flight from Ashiya (1964) on Netflix
NR19641h 40mAdventureDramaRomanceWar
Three U.S. Air Force rescue pilots fly from Ashiya Air Base in Japan to reach Japanese civilians on a life raft. One is prejudiced against the Japanese; another fears flying solo.
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Plot summary
MSgt Mike Takashima, Lt. Col. Glenn Stevenson and 2nd Lt. John Gregg belong to the U.S. Air Force Air Rescue Service at Ashiya Air Base in Japan. A Japanese ship has gone down in a storm, and survivors wait on a life raft. Two Grumman HU-16 Albatross seaplanes set out for them. As they fly, each man recalls his past. Gregg's helicopter once flew too near a mountain in Europe and set off an avalanche that buried the group he was trying to reach, and he has feared flying solo since. Stevenson met and married Caroline Gordon while he was flying as a civilian in the Philippines before World War II, and he carries a deep prejudice against the Japanese. Takashima, whose mother was Polish and father Japanese, was an Army paratrooper in love with Leila, an Algerian girl.
Cast
- Joe Di Redaas SSgt. Randy Smith(Joe di Reda)
- Mitsuhiro Sugiyamaas Charlie
- E.S. Inceas Capt. Walter Mound
- Andrew Hughesas Dr. Horton
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Flight from Ashiya (1964)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- For Flight from Ashiya, most sequences were shot in Japan, with air base exteriors filmed at Tachikawa Air Base, home of the USAF 39th Air Rescue Squadron. The squadron supplied two of its Grumman HU-16 Albatross amphibious flying boats to the production.
