| Flight from Ashiya | |
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| Directed by | Michael Anderson |
| Written by | Elliott Arnold (novel) Waldo Salt |
| Produced by | Harold Hecht |
| Starring | Yul Brynner Richard Widmark George Chakiris Suzy Parker Shirley Knight Danièle Gaubert Eiko Taki Joseph Di Reda Mitsuhiro Sugiyama E.S. Ince Andrew Hughes |
| Cinematography | Joseph MacDonald, ASC Burnett Guffey, ASC |
| Edited by | Gordon Pilkington |
| Music by | Frank Cordell |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Countries | Japan United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2.3 million [1][N 1] |
Flight from Ashiya (aka Ashiya Kara no hiko) is a 1964 film about the U.S. Air Force's Air Rescue Service, flying from Ashiya Air Base, Japan. In this American-Japanese co-production film set in the early 1960s, a flight crew's mission is to rescue a liferaft of Japanese civilians stranded in rough seas.[3] The film was based on the 1956 novel Rescue! by Elliott Arnold (repressed as Flight from Ashiya in 1959). It was released in Japan as Ashiya Kara no hiko.[4]
- ^ Orriss 2018, p. 154.
- ^ Falk, Ray. "On a Japanese 'Flight': Yul Brynner and American crew find oriental methods mean problems camera critique heroine." The New York Times, October 14, 1962, p. 131.
- ^ Paris 1995, p. 182.
- ^ Orriss 2018, p. 152.
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