Attack Squadron!

Attack Squadron!
Attack Squadron!
Directed by	Shue Matsubayashi
Screenplay by	Katsuya Suzaki
Produced by	Tomoyuki Tanaka; Yasuyoshi Tajitsu;
Starring	Toshiro Mifune; Yuzo Kayama; Takashi Shimura; Yosuke Natsuki;
Cinematography	Takeshi Suzuki
Edited by	Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Music by	Ikuma Dan
Production; company	Toho
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	3 January 1963 (Japan);
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Japan

Attack Squadron! (太平洋の翼, Taiheiyō no Tsubasa, transl. "Wings of the Pacific") is a 1963 Japanese film directed by Shue Matsubayashi, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film is about Lt. Colonel Senda (Toshiro Mifune) who commands three fighter squadrons, eventually being dominated by Allied forces in June 1944.^[1]^[2]

Release

Attack Squadron! was released in Japan on 3 January 1963 where it was distributed by Toho.^[1] The film was Toho's second highest-grossing film of the year and the 9th highest-grossing domestic film production in Japan in 1963.^[1]

The film was released theatrically in the United States by Toho International with English subtitles on February 1, 1975.^[1] It was released to home video by Combat Home Video in 1988 as Kamikaze with an English-language dub.^[1] Stuart Galbraith IV commented on this release, stating that it was panned-and-scanned with "some of the worst telecine work ever done; the entire film appears to have been mastered showing only the extreme left side of the image."^[1]