Kurenai no Tsubasa
| Kurenai no Tsubasa | |
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| Directed by | Kō Nakahira |
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| Produced by | Takiko Mizunoe |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Yoshihiro Yamazaki |
| Edited by | Masanori Tsujii |
| Music by |
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| Distributed by | Nikkatsu |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Kurenai no Tsubasa (紅の翼, lit. Crimson Wings) is a 1958 black and white Japanese film directed and co-written by Kō Nakahira.[2][3][4]
Plot
On Hachijojima island, a child suffers from tetanus and urgently needs serum delivered. The pilot Ishida Yasuji ends up flying a small Cessna after a larger airplane breaks down. Newspaper reporter Yukie and Ohashi, who originally chartered the Cessna, accompany him, but Ohashi, who has just killed a man, forces Ishida to land the plane on a small island along the way in an attempt to escape capture.[5]
Cast
- Yujiro Ishihara : Ishida Yasuji
- Izumi Ashikawa : Ishida Shinobu
- Hideaki Nitani : Ohashi Kazuo
- Masumi Okada :
- Kō Nishimura : Mizutani Tetsuji
- Sanae Nakahara :
- Shinsuke Ashida : Sasaki
- Shirō Osaka
- Kyosuke Machida
- Hisano Yamaoka :
- Keiichirō Akagi : (extra)
- Toru Abe : Iwami Takeshi
- Masami Shimojō : Sekine Junzō
Release
Nikkatsu released the film on December 28, 1958, in Japan. The film became one of the biggest Japanese box office hits of the 1950s.[6]
References
- ^ (in Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1958/ch005530.htm accessed 18 January 2009
- ^ "紅の翼とは". コトバンク. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
- ^ 日活アクションの華麗な世界：1954-1971 第三章 影の喪失-全盛期における裕次郎のアクション映画 p.70-89 航空アクションの興趣-「紅の翼」「天と地を駈ける男」「零戦黒雲一家」 ISBN 4624710878
- ^ "紅の翼". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ^ "紅の翼". Nikkatsu. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
- ^ Amit, Rea (5 September 2016). "Nakahira, Kō (1926–1978)". Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Retrieved 12 October 2024.
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