Best Guy (1990)

Original title

ベストガイ

Directed by

Tōru Murakawa

Genre

action film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 55m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A pilot in the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force competes to become the top-ranked trainee in an elite F-15J program. He faces challenges in the air and tensions with his fellow pilots.

fast-pacedintensepatrioticsuspensefulbombasticearnestformulaic

What happens

Best Guy (Japanese: ベストガイ, Hepburn: Besuto Gai) is a 1990 Japanese action film directed by Tōru Murakawa, and produced by Toei Company in association with Mitsui & Co. and Tohokushinsha Film. The screenplay was written by Murakawa with Makoto Takada. The film stars Yūji Oda, Naomi Zaizen, Masato Furuoya, Masato Nagamori, and Toshio Kurosawa. The title refers to the highest rank of the JASDF's F-15J training program. The film's aerial scenes were produced in cooperation with the JASDF, using the Mitsubishi F-15J - the country's variant of the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. Seen by movie critics as a copy of Top Gun, Best Guy was a box-office failure in Japan, earning ¥230 million. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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