Best Guy

Best Guy (ベストガイ, Besutogai) is a 1990 Japanese action film directed by Toru Murakawa, and produced by Toei Company in association with Mitsui & Co. and Tohokushinsha Film.[1] The screenplay was written by Murakawa with Makoto Takada. The film stars Yūji Oda, Naomi Zaizen, Masato Furuoya, Masato Nagamori, and Toshio Kurosawa.[2] The title refers to the highest rank of the JASDF's F-15J training program.

Best Guy
Directed byToru Murakawa
Produced byYasuhiro Hasegawa
Akio Yamaguchi
Yosuke Mizuno
Yoshihiro Kojima
Michio Tohohara
Written byMakoto Takada
Toru Murakawa
StarringYūji Oda
Naomi Zaizen
Music byMinoru Yamazaki
CinematographyYoshitaka Sakamoto
Edited byMasaaki Kawashima
Distributed byToei
Release date
  • December 15, 1990 (1990-12-15)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

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.

Cast
  • Yūji Oda as Lieutenant Hideo "Goku" Kajitani
  • Naomi Zaizen as Miyuki Mizuno
  • Masato Furuoya as Major Nobuaki "Zombie/Demon" Yoshinaga
  • Masato Nagamori as Captain Terushi "Imagine" Nataka
  • Toshio Kurosawa as Lt. Colonel Tadayuki "Odyssey" Yamamoto
  • Masahiro Sudou as Major Haruo "Thunder" Yashiki
  • Mikihisa Azuma as Second Lieutenant Yoshitaka "Robin" Muramatsu
  • Zenkichi Yoneyama as Second Lieutenant Atsuo "Duck" Nakagawa
  • Hikaru Kurosaki as Junior Officer Yusuke "Yunker" Tateishi
  • Chiharu Iwamoto as Second Lieutenant Akiko Shibata
  • Akiji Kobayashi as Yoshi Kamogawa[3]
  • Masaru Matsuda as Tsuyoshi Tokuda
  • Akiko Kana as Yumiko Yoshinaga
  • Keiko Kana as Yoshinaga
  • Chiyoko Shimakura as the Chief Nurse
  • Takaaki Enoki as Kajiya Tetsuji
  • Naoto Takenaka

Soundtrack

The film's self-titled theme song was recorded by Sheree Jeacocke and released as a CD single by BMG Victor on October 21, 1990. Jeacocke herself makes an appearance in the beginning of the film.

Marketing

Hasegawa issued a "Best Guy" edition of their 1/48 scale F-15J Eagle model kit to promote the film.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Best Guy". wowowonline. Retrieved 2010-10-21.
  2. "Best Guy". AllCinema. Retrieved 2010-10-21.
  3. "Akiji Kobayashi". kotobank. Retrieved 2010-10-21.
  4. Hasegawa 1/48 F-15 Eagle "Best Guy"


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