The Cockpit
– A World War II anthology film based on Leiji Matsumoto's Battlefield manga. Kawajiri's Slipstream fo..
A World War II anthology film based on Leiji Matsumoto's Battlefield manga. Kawajiri's Slipstream follows a Luftwaffe pilot on his mission to protect Germany's trump card: the world's first atomic bomb. Imanishi's Sonic Boom Squadron explores the last hours of an Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka pilot on August 6, 1945. Takahashi's Knight of the Iron Dragon tells the story of two Japanese soldiers in Leyte as they attempt to keep a promise.
Japanese
Takashi Imanishi, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Ryôsuke Takahashi
Yoshiaki Kawajiri (screenplay), Leiji Matsumoto (comics), Ryôsuke Takahashi (screenplay), Takashi Waguri (screenplay)
Ken'yû Horiuchi, Hikaru Midorikawa, Stephen Apostolina, Kanetaka Arimoto
This anthology tells the aviation related stories of three troopers on the Axis side of World War II. The first one is of a disgraced German fighter pilot who is assigned to escort a bomber carrying his love and a fearsome secret cargo. The second story is of a Japanese kamikaze pilot of a guided rocket bomb who, denied his chance in a failed attack in which he survived, is determined to complete his mission despite the odds. Finally, two soldiers attempt to reach an air base to fulfill a promise despite the fact that it might have been rendered moot in the reality of war.