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Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Kajirō Yamamoto with Yatarō Kurokawa

Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron (1944)

Katō hayabusa sentō-tai

Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron
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Length 1h51
Directed by
OriginJapon
Genres Drama,    War
Rating68% 3.4338253.4338253.4338253.4338253.433825

Kato hayabusa sento-tai (加藤隼戦闘隊) aka Colonel Tateo Katō's Flying Squadron (64th Sentai) and aka Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron is a 1944 black and white Japanese film directed by Kajiro Yamamoto.

It is a war film and there are special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya.

Synopsis

Biographie de l'as de l'aviation Tateo Katō, le commandant du 64e régiment de chasse du Service aérien de l'Armée impériale japonaise, tué deux ans plus tôt.

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