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I watched the trailer for "Pacific Wings" in my early years, about the old Japanese Navy's 343rd Air Force, and I was surprised to see it. Purple Electric Battle Rice Country Ghost Beast! International Superstar Six... Ah no, Toshiro Mifune! Exquisite 1960 special effects! It must be a great film, recently searched for the film source and plug-in subtitles, after enjoying it, quite a feeling... It's hard to put into words. The author has done a little research, the level is limited, if there is any fallacy, please point out.
The opening of the film is quite heavy.
The three male twos, the three flight captains of the 343 air, are the three flight captains, and then they correspond one by one.
The "God of Special Shooting" Hideji Marutani pressed the array.
The opening of the film explains the background of the turkey hunt, "In June 19, the mobile forces of the United States and Japan fought each other in the western sea of the Mariana Islands, and the two sides faced each other 300 miles apart, and about 400 fighters took off from our aircraft carriers, but 80% of them did not return to the ship after all, and the future of the Japanese Navy, which lost its air superiority, was bleak."
The Military Command held a meeting to discuss countermeasures, and according to the timeline, the chief of the Military Command was Shiro Kazukawa, and the deputy head of the Military Command was Osamuro Ozawa. The two actors are Joe Shimura and Seiji Miyaguchi, and audiences who have seen old Japanese films such as "Seven Samurai" should be familiar with these old actors.
Aviation staff officer "Chidanakasa" appeared, and Genda shi was unmistakable.
Although there were many aircraft, the lack of fuel led to the poor quality of personnel, so the deputy commander of the military command issued a message to attack the operation. what the fuck？ Jisaburo Ozawa mentioned this?
Chidanakasa opposed one aircraft for one ship, but wanted to form elite troops to seize local air supremacy, and there was opposition all around, and the remaining elite pilots were scattered all over the battlefield.
"Chidano Nakasa" Genda Shi was able to say this... The author here omits a few words of fragrant mouth
At the end of the argument, the deputy commander of the military command was fixed. Isn't it Genda Shi who advocates the kamikaze special attack and jumps the highest? Smear while washing white while shaking the pot?
The deputy commander also had to take a stand, but still allowed the formation of an elite air force.
The round battle "Purple Electric Reform" debuted.
Chidanakasa submitted a roster of 343 air to the commander-in-chief of the military command and made himself commander. It can be seen that the film is to pinch Genda Shi and Shiga Shuxiong together - after all, whitewashing is needed.
The author consulted the information and determined that the three combat flight detachments of the 343 air force in history and their captains were:
Battle 301 "New Selection Group", Captain Nao Kanno. Corresponding movie character: Captain Ryūshiro (Yuzo Kayama)
Battle 407 "Heavenly Curse Team", Lieutenant Lin Xi. Corresponding movie character: Captain Tetsuhei Yano (played by Yuki Sato)
Battle 701 "Restoration Team", Yuanyuan Takashi Ōyō. Corresponding movie character: Captain Nobuo Anzai (played by Yosuke Natsume)
Then it depends on where these people are. First of all, on Iwo Jima, it must be said that this origami mountain is quite similar. Hiding in the air raid shelter, Nobuo Ayake was playing with his subordinates, and the grass-roots officers and soldiers in the old Japanese army's system of taking people out of place had long been in a rage. The author did not find that Takashi Mibuchi had experience in the battle of Iwo Jima, and it is estimated that it is a fiction in the film.
As soon as the camera turns, at this time, Rabaul has been isolated in the rear by the ghost animals, and there is no wind and waves, and the ghost animals are too lazy to fight, and the Japanese are still alive, and the 8th Front Army of Imamura Jun is "living on its own" in that kind of place. With the soundtrack "Rabaul Minor", Captain Tetsuhei Yano stretched out of the headquarters, sat in a chair and raised the bar with his men, "Captain, what should we do?" "Anyway, there has been no war recently, so let's call our wives and children from the interior," a laugh, a sadness that clearly recognized their lives.
Everyone is discussing the matter of growing sweet potatoes to "live on their own", and note that the list on the command is the 253rd empty. Historically, air 253 at this time was indeed in Rabaul, but Tetsuhei Yano's prototype, Captain Hayashi Yoshitsu, had long been transferred to air 361 in mid-March 1944, followed by a 407 flight detachment to air 221 in the Philippines in July, and finally transferred to air 343.
Suddenly, there was a lot of noise, and the pilot, Corporal Tanaba (Played by Atsumi Kiyoshi), ran to the Army's sweet potato field to steal sweet potatoes, and was found holding a sign and chasing all the way, and it cannot be said that the Army red deer is still very energetic (manual funny).
Looking at the Philippines, Ryujiro, who had no planes, could only copy the guys as infantry to resist the guerrillas. The naval red deer is also very spirited, and Yuzo Kayama was a proper high-value small fresh meat. Historically, this time Kanno Nao was in 201 Air, stationed in the Caroling Islands near the Philippines.
The transfer order was issued to the three people to move with the deployment. Nobuo Aya and the others had to paddle a small sampan and take a submarine to break through in the sea off Iwo Jima, but as a result, the two sides were discovered by the ghost animal ship as soon as they met, and the submarine was forced to dive.
A group of people died and were left with Anzai and Inaba, and the two were stranded on a desert island, but they were still rescued by a submarine. Judging from the submarine projection and filming time, this submarine is the first submarine of the Japanese Self-Defense Force after the war, the Kuroshio, the former U.S. Navy's "Little Shark" class SS-261 "Spotted Fur".
Captain Yano of Rabaul played a "straw boat borrowing arrows", faked the scene of the ghost animal plane crash, tricked the ghost animal torpedo boat to dock to check, and then took the opportunity to seize the ship! However, the gun in the hands of the ghost captain turned out to be a German p38??!!
And then this section made me laugh. Yano and his party drove all the way back to the ship, encountered a destroyer directly two torpedoes past, and then saw that the other side's mast was also a plaster flag, he was almost counterattacked by the other side to eat shells, desperately playing the flag to eliminate the misunderstanding, the other side's flag language replied to "Malu Yelang", a group of people sang "Rabaul Minor" Fart upside down back to the Matsuyama base. This ship looks at the hull number is obviously the first generation of Japanese destroyers after the war" "Chunfeng" class ship "Snow Wind", well, another "Snow Wind"...
Ryushiro and his party in the Philippines suffered heavy casualties during the breakout, but when they arrived at the headquarters, they were told to engage in special attack operations. Lieutenant Qing Shui, who had been mistaken for death in battle, took the initiative to apply to stay and watched the others fly to Tainan, and it must be said that this paragraph is quite sensational.
Halfway encountered the ghost animal f4u interception, Shimizu drove a zero battle to disperse the ghost animal, but inexplicably in the blink of an eye the old hen turned into a duck and became a purple electric change!
The aircraft was injured and fuel leaked, and only weight could be lost, and finally even the bodies of comrades were thrown down with hatred! This sensationalism is really well done. Nagano did have a similar experience in history, and was asked to send a subordinate to carry out a special attack when he was transferring to Cebu Island in November 1944, but he refused, and later returned to Manila with the 96th Land Offensive when he was intercepted by p-38, and he personally flew to escape and landed on Lubang Island.
The personnel arrived, the Heavenly Curse Group, the Newly Selected Group, the Restoration Team, and the Commander's Words came to this set again. It is said that Genda Shi once ran to the 343 air to request a special attack mission, but was intimidated by the words of the commander of the unit, Shiga Shuxiong, "Please ask the commander to lead the team".
The first dispatch of the 343 air force was not to meet the battle, but to avoid the battle, because the mission goal was to seize air supremacy, and the target of the battle was the ghost animal fighter, and the strength must be preserved.
As a result, he was treated as a shrunken-headed turtle by the kamikaze team. The author has no good feelings for the kamikaze special attack team and the like, the Japanese do not regard the Japanese as people, howling what "one hundred million jade fragments", why should others take the Japanese as people?
Finally ushered in the first battle, the ghost animal's tf58 task force flocked to the scene, accompanied by the exciting "Warship March", the z-character flag was unfurled in the wind, and the purple electric change took off to meet the attack! Pay attention to the identification ribbon of the fuselage behind the captain.com. This paragraph is really very spiritual!
The ghost animal ship exploded and exploded, and the people of the locust country fled in panic. What you have done to others, you must also be prepared to taste it as it is, there is a way that "the heavens are good reincarnation, and the heavens have spared whom"
The air defense forces were indignant, "Where are the fighters?" The purple electric reform formation encountered enemy planes, the whole team attacked, and violently beat the ghost animals! This empty battlefield is very well done, and the ground looks like chicken blood.
Brilliant results? It seems that it is not, in history, on that day, 343 aircraft and 54 purple electric and purple electricity attacked 160 US troops, claiming to shoot down 58 aircraft and losing 14 aircraft. The U.S. military claimed to have shot down 8 aircraft, forced landings twice, scrapped 4 aircraft, and achieved 50 results. The misjudgment of the results of the battle in the melee is the same in all countries, but considering that the US military has never deliberately exaggerated, and the Japanese army's war reports such as "base camp publication" can be made into jokes for people's amusement, so in fact, the two sides are estimated to be a draw, and each lost more than a dozen.
The success of Air 343 attracted the attention of the military command, and it was then forced to divide. The honey of the locust army, from Midway to Imphal, Presumably everyone is no stranger to it, huh!
Chida, who exits the conference room, meets a skinny old man, played by Jin Fujita, who was the deputy chief of the military command at the beginning of the war. Fujita is one of the Japanese actors that I like very much, and since I have just had stomach surgery at that time, my appearance is not very good. Later, in "Tiger Tiger Tiger", Fujita Jin used only three lines from beginning to end to play the commander of the second aircraft ship, Yamaguchi Tatsumi, and you can look at the classic bridge section of "Tiger Tiger Tiger" in which Yamaguchi smelled of Nan yun Tadaichi at the military meeting on the front deck of the nagato gate.
This plot is very bloody, and there is a note in the boots, "Long live Yamato".
When I went back to investigate, it was Done by Corporal Tanaka, whom the Tenjo team greatly admired.
The enemy reported that after the draw, the Tenji team would carry out the interception task, and the other detachments could only sit on the ground and wait, and Nobuo Anda and Ryujiro were puzzled, but they could only obey.
Captain Tetsuhei Yano's plane malfunctioned, so he had to rob Dan's plane, and did not forget to tease this "sweet potato thief".
During the air battle, Yano was attacked by a ghost animal who did not speak martial arts, and after being wounded, he gritted his teeth and drove the plane back. Danxia guided the landing on the ground, and after landing, the person died. Historically, on April 21, 1945, Lin Xizhong single-handedly challenged 11 B-29s, and after being injured, the forced landing failed and died in battle.
Ryujiro, who had a hot brain, took off alone, but was bitten by 3 p-51s. At the moment of crisis, Commander Chida piloted the plane to disperse the ghost animals and saved his life, but this was not an example.
New missions to escort Yamato. This purple electricity on the short legs is a bit difficult. In the historical Kikusui special attack, the combined fleet did not escort the Yamato faction, but the commander of the five ships, Yu Heng, could not bear to look at it, and he sent 15 zero battles to escort Yamato, and the captain was Ito Junichi's only son, Ito, and the father and son were killed. There is a saying that the Ito family is more about martial arts than the Tojo family, whose three sons are all cowering in the rear and can't hold a gun after committing suicide.
The Purple Electric Adaptation Team appeared over Yamato, and at this time, the soundtrack "Shikishima Ship March" sounded, and this scene was really well done!
On the way back, Captain Anzai didn't want to go back, but wanted to accompany Yamato all the time, taking Tanji and Inaba and the like out of the formation and turning back—which meant that they had no fuel to return and could only fall into the sea.
Ito Ando and Yukisaku, who were sitting in Yamato, understood that these were voluntary martyrdoms, and since this was the case, they should always get to know each other, and it was a good companion on the Yellow Spring Road.
With "Cherry Blossoms at the Same Time", Anzai and other four machines skimmed over Yamato in turn to inform the identity, and this paragraph is indeed very sensational!
A dejected head. Historically, the prototype of Anzai, Takashi Michibuchi, died not so boring, and on July 24, 1945, in the Great Air Battle of Wugang, he led 21 Purple Electric to meet more than 200 American aircraft and was killed in the air battle. According to Lieutenant Jack A. Gibson of the U.S. Navy VF-49, he shot down a "purple electric reform" with white stripes at around 10:15 a.m.
The B-29 is coming, the ghost animal's Army Air Force is not as easy to deal with as the Navy red deer, and the emergency takeoff of the Purple Electric Is slaughtered by the escort P-51.
Luckily escaping from the siege and taking off alone, Ryujiro was really tired of this meaningless war, but he couldn't carry it all on his back and live. Facing the B-29 formation, Ryujiro went completely mad and pulled out the open-ground radio. Why don't the Japanese think about what they did to recruit the B-29? Moreover, not to mention the 60s when this film was made, let's say that now, the Japanese dare to say this to American fathers?
This scene is still very comfortable.
Ryujiro pushed the lever and crashed directly into the B-29. Historically, Kanno disappeared on August 1, 1945, after taking off in a 343-a-15 flight due to a failure of his 343-a-15, and was confirmed dead. It can be said that the plot of him and Lin Xizhong was reversed in the movie.
The war was over, the peace was over, and before the end of the play, such a monologue was arranged for Chida Daisa. This is true, but from the mouth of a person like Genda Shi, how can it make people feel awkward. Isn't it this grandson who pushes young people to their deaths? wdnmd！
The characteristics of the Japanese can be said to be "small things are shrewd, big things are confused", such as this movie, there are many remarkable points in the plot details and performance methods, although it is not completely in line with historical facts, but the art is taken from life above life, and the appropriate interpretation of the overhead is harmless, and even worthy of praise.
But in any case, the basic three views of right and wrong cannot be ridiculed. Japanese culture also belongs to the Han cultural circle, and the virtues in the Han cultural circle are nothing more than "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, and righteousness." In the end, Ōnishi Takijiro was a mischievous cross cut, and atonement for his sins with great pain was blameless in "righteousness".
And genda shi such a cargo, after the war to defend themselves, was besieged by the remnants of the special attack team, almost beaten violently, in Japan are notorious street, give him whitewashing, really big husband? By the way, he also dressed himself up as an image of "defending the family and defending the country"... To borrow the words of Sweeney, the B-29 pilot who had leveled Nagasaki, "The Japanese always croaked and ate the atomic bomb, but never thought about why they ate the atomic bomb."
Look at recent ones such as "Forever 0", "Archimedes", etc., send the Japanese a word, rat tail juice.
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