Nippons wilde Adler

Nippons wilde Adler (1940)

燃ゆる大空

Das Hohelied der japanischen Luftwaffe

Fliegerfilm der japanischen Luftwaffe. Gezeigt werden Piloten in der Ausbildung und im Kriegseinsatz an der chinesischen Front. Mit Unterstützung der japanischen Heeresleitung, die das Projekt in Auftrag gegeben hatte, gelangen spektakuläre Aufnahmen, für die erstmals echte Maschinen eingesetzt wurden. Dramatische Luftkämpfe zeugen vom Heldenmut der Piloten, die sich in ihren Jägern todesmutig in den Kampf stürzen, um die eigenen Bomberstaffeln zu schützen. Nicht verschwiegen werden dabei die vielen Opfer, die die japanische Luftwaffe im zweiten Japanisch-Chinesischen Krieg zu beklagen hatte.

Erscheinungsdatum
1940-05-10
Laufzeit
1 Std. 41 Min.
Genres
Kriegsfilm
Regie
Yutaka Abe

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

The Burning Sky is a 1940 black-and-white Japanese war film produced and directed by Yutaka Abe, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film depicts the growth and fighting style of Imperial Japanese Army Air Service officers as they undergo training, and later their interactions with their former instructor as they fight together in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War after he takes command of their squadron. Considered a work of high quality, The Burning Sky is ranked eighth in the Kinema Junpo list of Ten Best Japanese Films. Special cinematographer Eiichi Tsuburaya won the Japan Photographers Association Award for his work on the film.

Production

Made to commemorate the 2,600th anniversary of the Imperial era in Japan in 1940, The Burning Sky took three years to film. The Japanese Army Ministry and Army Aviation Headquarters fully cooperated in the making of the film, and 947 real Imperial Japanese Army Air Service military aircraft in use during the Second Sino-Japanese War, as well as active air personnel, participated in the filming.

Director Yutaka Abe was skeptical of special effects, so he focused on real scenes, but some scenes lacked the impact he desired, so special effects scenes were added. However, most of the flight scenes were shot with actual aircraft actually flying for the movie, rather than using special effects or reusing existing film such as that of newsreels.

For the crash-landing scene, a model airplane made of pasted-together construction paper was launched from a cliff with a slingshot while three cameras filmed the action from the bottom of the cliff, but the model airplane blew away in the wind. It was not seen again.

The early part of The Burning Sky depicts the training and life of young airmen at the Kumagaya Army Flight School in a realistic and sometimes humorous manner, and serves as an advertisement for military enlistment. The movie was unique even at the time in that no women appear in it. Kazuo Hasegawa appears in the role of a military doctor attached to the Army Air Service in order to attract a female audience.

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