The Sky Crawlers (2008) on Netflix
PG-1320082h 2mAdventureAnimationDrama
Two rival companies keep a world at peace entertained with real aerial battles. Their pilots are Kildren, engineered to stay young. Yūichi Kannami is posted to Area 262 under Suito Kusanagi.
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Peace holds in this world, so two rival companies, Rostock and Lautern, stage real dogfights to satisfy a public used to war. The pilots are Kildren, humanoids engineered to stay physically adolescent and never age. Yūichi Kannami is posted to Area 262 and given a new aircraft. He learns he replaced Kurita Jinroh, and that Suito Kusanagi commands the base. At a local diner Fuuko says she was involved with Jinroh. The pilots also talk of the Teacher, an enemy ace said to be an adult.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Sky Crawlers (2008)
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- Author Hiroshi Mori considered The Sky Crawlers one of the hardest of his works to adapt for film, and agreed to the project only after learning that Mamoru Oshii would direct it.
- The end-credits song of the Japanese version, "Konya mo Hoshi ni Dakarete" by Ayaka, is not used in the American release of the film.
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