Flight from Ashiya

IMDb link: 0058104
IMDb rating: 5.4 (809 votes)
Genres: Adventure, Drama, War, Romance
Director: Richard Widmark, Michael Anderson
Cast: Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, Suzy Parker and others

Release date: 25 Mar 1964
Release year: 1964
Runtime: 100 minutes
Country: Japan, United States
Keywords: cafe, rescue, japan, flight, life raft, flight crew, helicopter, 1960s, air rescue, parachute

Plot:

Flight from Ashiya is a 1964 film about the U.S. Air Force's Air Rescue Service, flying out of Ashiya Air Base, Japan. In this fictionalized film set in the early 1960s, a flight crew's mission is to rescue a life raft of Japanese civilians stranded in rough seas. The Airplane used in the film was the HU-16 Albatross, A flying boat.

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