Zero

Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who don't qualify for the pilot training and instead joins the ground crew. It chronicles the entire history of the famous fighter from the first prototype test flights all through the war.

Jun Hashizume

Kunio Mizushima

Yu Hayami

Shizuko Yoshikawa

Yûzô Kayama

Manbei Shimokawa

Tetsurō Tamba

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Kinya Kitaoji

Jiro Horikoshi

Daijiro Tsutsumi

Shoichi Hamada

Teruhiko Aoi

Kofukuda

Masaaki Daimon

Sone

Takeshi Katō

Ugaki

Yûki Meguro

Miyano

Yôko Minamida

Ine Hamada

Shin Takuma

Teruo Tojo

Bill Ross

Douglas Macarthur

Yoshio Aoki

Shigeru Kōyama

Hiroko Maki

Shinsuke Mikimoto

Koji Moritsugu