Yul Brynner Richard Widmark George Chakiris Suzy Parker Shirley Knight Danièle Gaubert Eiko Taki Joseph Di Reda Mitsuhiro Sugiyama E.S. Ince Andrew Hughes
Cinematography
Joseph MacDonald, ASC Burnett Guffey, ASC
Edited by
Gordon Pilkington
Music by
Frank Cordell
Production company
Harold Hecht Productions
Distributed by
United Artists
Release date
March 25, 1964 (1964-03-25)
(U.S. release)
Running time
100 minutes
Countries
Japan United States
Language
English
Budget
$2.3 million [1][N 1]
Flight from Ashiya (aka Ashiya Kara no hiko) is a 1964 film about the U.S. Air Force's Air Rescue Service, flying from Ashiya Air Base, Japan. In this American-Japanese co-production film set in the early 1960s, a flight crew's mission is to rescue a liferaft of Japanese civilians stranded in rough seas.[3] The film was based on the 1956 novel Rescue! by Elliott Arnold (repressed as Flight from Ashiya in 1959). It was released in Japan as Ashiya Kara no hiko.[4]
^Orriss 2018, p. 154.
^Falk, Ray. "On a Japanese 'Flight': Yul Brynner and American crew find oriental methods mean problems camera critique heroine." The New York Times, October 14, 1962, p. 131.
^Paris 1995, p. 182.
^Orriss 2018, p. 152.
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