Kurenai no Tsubasa

Kurenai no Tsubasa
Directed byKō Nakahira
Written byKō Nakahira, Akinori Matsuo
Produced byNikkatsu
StarringYujiro Ishihara
Izumi Ashikawa
Hideaki Nitani
Shinsuke Ashida
Kō Nishimura
Sanae Nakahara
Release date
  • December 28, 1958 (1958-12-28)[1]
Running time
93 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Kurenai no Tsubasa (紅の翼, lit. "Crimson Wings") is a 1958 black and white Japanese film directed 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

References

  1. ^ (in Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1958/ch005530.htm accessed 18 January 2009
  2. ^ "紅の翼とは". コトバンク. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ "紅の翼". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  5. ^ "紅の翼". Nikkatsu. Retrieved 19 March 2017.