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(Note: All URLs are in Japanese.)
Just for fun, the Japanese movie “Jetto F104 dasshutsu seyo”, literally “Jet F-104 Escape”, opened on 9 March 1968.
http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=142359
http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1968/cr000520.htm
I did not watch this movie.
According to summaries at
http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/kinejun/index.cgi?ctl=each&id=22381
http://movie.goo.ne.jp/movies/PMVWKPD22381/comment.html
its story is:
The five protagonists, (family name first) Kaidu Shirou, Shinoda Masami, Satohara Kazuhiko, Sakamoto Saburou, and Tashiro Takao, are amongst the 90 students of an aviation school class. They began from learning to fly propeller aircraft.
After the first beginner’s class course, half of the class washed out.
After more ability examination and training at Ashiya AB, Sakamoto and two others were streamed to SAR aircraft. Three others were streamed to transport aircraft.
Kaidu and ten others were streamed to Hamamatsu AB, and learnt the T-33 and F-86F.
One snowy day, Sakamoto bought the farm while training in Shima Peninsula.
Kaidu, Shinoda, and Satohara deployed to Chitose AB for air combat training.
Unable to bear the severe training, Satohara resigned.
Amongst the five protagonists, only Kaidu and Shinoda deployed to Nyuutabaru AB, and learnt the front-line F-104.
One day, during manoeuvring, Kaidu had an abnormal situation. His decelerator malfunctioned. Worse, the runway at Itaduke AB was closed because of an accident. Eventually, Kaidu escaped from the crisis.
In the end, Kaidu and Shinoda were operationally assigned to Chitose AB.
At Amazon Japan, this movie has been out of stock.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B00005IM9X/503-3143879-6736716?v=glance&n=561960&s=gateway
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B00005GELU/503-3143879-6736716?v=glance&n=561960&s=gateway
I suppose the F-104 also guest-appeared in many Gamera, Gojira, and other Japanese giant monster movies.
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