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Flight from Ashiya

As a powerful typhoon looms over the Japanese coast, a daring team of flight crew members embarks on a perilous mission to rescue those stranded after a devastating shipwreck, battling the tempest's fury to deliver crucial aid to those in desperate need.

The 1964 film Flight from Ashiya is a fictionalized account of the U.S. Air Force's Air Rescue Service, operating out of Ashiya Air Base in Japan. The story takes place in the early 1960s and follows a flight crew on a mission to rescue a Japanese life raft carrying civilians stranded in treacherous waters. The crew uses an HU-16 Albatross, a flying boat, to carry out the daring rescue.

Info about Flight from Ashiya

Studio(s): Harold Hecht Films, Daiei Film

Originally Released: United States, Mar 25, 1964

Production Countries: Japan, United States

Budget: $1,800,000.00

Genres:Adventure, Drama, Romance, War