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Kiyohiko Ushihara, Shochiku Kamata, 1930, made for the studio's tenth year. Farmer's son Koichi (Denmei Suzuki) wants to fly; Toshiko (Kinuyo Tanaka) introduces him to her pilot brother; war with an unnamed country sends them to the front. The Imperial Army lent aircraft and tanks. Kamata cameramen shot the aerial footage the histories count as Japan's first, cut with models. Kinema Junpo's Shigechika Ikeda (1 April 1930) praised the technique as typical Ushihara. Vidor's The Big Parade and Wellman's Wings are the Hollywood homework.
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Shochiku's tenth-birthday picture, with the Imperial Army lending aircraft and tanks. A farmer's son who wants to fly, Kinuyo Tanaka, and a war with a country the titles will not name. The histories give it Japan's first aerial footage, cut with models. Ushihara had done his homework on Wings, and it shows.
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