MSgt Mike Takashima (Yul Brynner), Col Glenn Stevenson (Richard Widmark) and 1st Lt John Gregg (George Chakiris), 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.

Flight from Ashiya: Directed by Michael Anderson. With Yul Brynner, Richard Widmark, George Chakiris, Suzy Parker. A flight crew tries to save the survivors of a shipwreck off the coast of Japan during a raging typhoon.

2020年12月16日 · Faced with rescuing Japanese, he is enraged. For his part, Brynner, as a paratrooper during the war, inadvertently caused the death of his Algerian girlfriend. It’s not so much an examination of tough guys under pressure as about their inability to deal with the consequences of action.

As they fly to the site of the wreck, each man recalls a part of his past: Gregg remembers the avalanche caused when his helicopter came too close to a mountain. The avalanche subsequently buried alive the group of people whom he was attempting to rescue. The accident has since caused him to fear flying solo.

👉 Storyline: "Flight From Ashiya, 1964"At Ashiya Air Base in Japan, U.S. Air Force Air Rescue Service soldiers MSgt Mike Takashima (Yul Brynner), Col Glenn ...

A helicopter rescue team piloted by Lt. Col. Glenn Stevenson (Richard Widmark), TSgt. Mike Takashima (Yul Brynner) and 2nd Lt. John Gregg (George Chakiris) tries to save the survivors of a shipwreck off the coast of Japan during a raging typhoon . As they are plunged into hell with the most fearless breed of men on earth .

In his flashback, the team initially manages to land their rescue helicopter, drop off supplies and take back a few survivors. Brynner assists in delivering a baby and we see a hint of Widmark’s troubled past in a brief flashback within this flashback followed by a racially charged tirade toward Brynner, who we learn is half Japanese.

He was known for his portrayal of King Mongkut in the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical The King and I (1951), for which he won two Tony Awards, and later an Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1956 film adaptation.

尤·伯连纳 （Yul Brynner） ，1920年7月11日出生于远东共和国符拉迪沃斯托克，美国演员、导演。 1944年，出演了个人首部电视剧《Mr. Jones and His Neighbors》。

Happy Heavenly birthday to Frank Sinatra stepping out of a Helicopter (Photography by Actor Yul Brynner).