Crimson Wings

Crimson Wings

1958 · 94 min · Action

At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received from an airline company's office on remote Hachijo Island for a special serum. A Cessna aircraft which has been chartered by a man named Ohashi takes off for the island with the serum piloted by Ishida. But when airborne, Ohashi, who is the murderer of lwami, holds up Ishida at gunpoint and orders him to land on a small island west of Hachijo where a ship is waiting to take him to Hong Kong...

Directed by Kō Nakahira · Written by Kō Nakahira

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Yūjirō Ishihara Koji Ishida
Izumi Ashikawa Shinobu Ishida
Sanae Nakahara Yumie Naganuma
Hideaki Nitani Kazuo Ohashi
Shoichi Ozawa Yukihiro Ando
Kō Nishimura Tetsuji Mizutani
Shinsuke Ashida Tadahiro Sasaki
Masao Shimizu Ryozo Kada
Mayumi Shimizu Yuriko Okiyama
Osamu Takizawa Junpei Naganuma

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