Best Guy

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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.

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[]

• Top Gun

References[]

External links[]

• Best Guy at AllCinema
• Best Guy at Kinenote
• Best Guy at IMDb

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