--- title: 'Flight from Ashiya (1964)' type: 'film' director: 'Michael Anderson' released: '1964-01-01' runtime_minutes: 102 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Adventure' - 'Romance' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/flight-from-ashiya-1964' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058104/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Flight from Ashiya (1964) 1964 · 102 min · Drama, Adventure, Romance · United States ## Synopsis Flight from Ashiya is a 1964 film about the U.S. Air Force's Air Rescue Service, flying from Ashiya Air Base, Japan. In this American-Japanese co-production film set in the early 1960s, a flight crew's mission is to rescue a liferaft of Japanese civilians stranded in rough seas. The film was based on the 1956 novel Rescue! by Elliott Arnold. It was released in Japan as Ashiya Kara no hiko. ## Credits - **Director:** [Michael Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-anderson) - **Screenplay:** [Waldo Salt](https://cinepixo.com/people/waldo-salt) - **Original Music Composer:** [Frank Cordell](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-cordell) - **Producer:** [Harold Hecht](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-hecht) - **Director of Photography:** [Joseph MacDonald](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-macdonald), [Burnett Guffey](https://cinepixo.com/people/burnett-guffey) - **Editor:** [Gordon Pilkington](https://cinepixo.com/people/gordon-pilkington) ## Cast - [Danielle Gaubert](https://cinepixo.com/people/danielle-gaubert) - [Suzy Parker](https://cinepixo.com/people/suzy-parker) - [Andrew Hughes](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrew-hughes) - [George Chakiris](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-chakiris) - [Richard Widmark](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-widmark) - [Yul Brynner](https://cinepixo.com/people/yul-brynner) - [William Ross](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-ross) - [Shirley Knight](https://cinepixo.com/people/shirley-knight) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/flight-from-ashiya-1964 Film facts: Wikidata (Q25506); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.