Best Guy

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Best Guy
Japanese name
Kanji	ベストガイ
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Besuto Gai
Directed by	Tōru Murakawa
Written by	Makoto Takada Tōru Murakawa
Produced by	Yasuhiro Hasegawa Akio Yamaguchi Yosuke Mizuno Yoshihiro Kojima Michio Tohohara
Starring	Yūji Oda Naomi Zaizen Masato Furuoya Masato Nagamori Toshio Kurosawa
Cinematography	Yoshitaka Sakamoto
Edited by	Masaaki Kawashima
Music by	Minoru Yamazaki
Production companies	Toei Mitsui & Co. Tohokushinsha Film
Distributed by	Toei
Release date	December 15, 1990 (1990-12-15)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	¥230 million[1]

Best Guy (ベストガイ, Besuto Gai) is a 1990 Japanese action film directed by Tōru Murakawa, and produced by Toei Company in association with Mitsui & Co. and Tohokushinsha Film.^[2][3] The screenplay was written by Murakawa with Makoto Takada. The film stars Yūji Oda, Naomi Zaizen, Masato Furuoya, Masato Nagamori, and Toshio Kurosawa.^[4] The title refers to the highest rank of the JASDF's F-15J training program.^[5]

The film's aerial scenes were produced in cooperation with the JASDF, using the Mitsubishi F-15J - the country's variant of the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. Seen by movie critics as a copy of Top Gun, Best Guy was a box-office failure in Japan, earning ¥230 million.^[1]