Flight from Ashiya is a 1964 film about the U.S. Air Force's Air Rescue Service, flying out of Ashiya Air Base, Japan. In this fictionalized film set in the early 1960s, a flight crew's mission is to rescue a liferaft of Japanese civilians stranded in rough seas. It was based on the 1959 novel by Elliott Arnold. The movie centers on three flight crew members of a USAF Air Rescue Service HU-16 Albatross and various experiences in their collective pasts, told in flashback. Some have considered the flashbacks as tedious and boring, but the aircraft sequences are generally considered quite good,... especially for fans of the Grumman Albatross. Richard Widmark plays Colonel Stevenson ; Yul Brynner portrays Master Sergeant Mike Takashima and George Chakiris portrays the co-pilot, Lieutenant Gregg. MSgt Mike Takashima, Col Glenn Stevenson, and 1st Lt John Gregg, all members of the U. S. Air Force Air Rescue Service at Ashiya Air Base, Japan, set out to rescue the survivors of a Japanese ship wrecked in a still-raging storm.
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| Release date: | 1964 |
| Directed by: | Michael Anderson |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Producer: | Harold Hecht |
| Music by: | Frank Cordell |
| Cinematography: | Burnett Guffey, Joseph MacDonald |
| Screenplay by: | Waldo Salt, Elliott Arnold |
| Genre: | Action, Adventure |