When an American fighter jet crashes on an island held by the Japanese, a five-man assault team launches a daring mission to rescue the survivors.
THE AUSTRALIAN WWII ACTION CLASSIC BASED ON AN INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY. RESTORED ON DISC FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AMERICA.
In one of his earliest film roles, two-time Academy Award® winner Mel Gibson stars with Sam Neill (JURASSIC PARK) and John Phillip Law (DANGER: DIABOLIK) in the true story of Z Special Force, WWII's top-secret Pacific commando unit: When an American fighter jet crashes on an island held by the Japanese, a five-man Z Force assault team launches a daring mission of courage, carnage and desperate jungle warfare to rescue the survivors. Chris Haywood (RAZORBACK), John Waters (BREAKER MORANT) and Sylvia Chang (the MAD MISSION series) co-star in the complete version of this 1981 Australia/Taiwan co-production directed by Ozploitation veteran Tim Burstall (ALVIN PURPLE), written by Roger Marshall (AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS) and edited by David Stiven (THE ROAD WARRIOR), scanned in 2K from the original negative at The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
Special Features
Media
Bonus Materials
- The Z Men Debriefed - Interviews With Executive Producer John McCallum And Actors John Waters And Chris Haywood
- Photo Gallery
- Trailer
Cast & Crew
Actors:- Mel Gibson as Capt. P.G. (Paul) Kelly
- John Phillip Law as Lt. J.A. (Jan) Veitch
- Sam Neill as Sgt. D.J. (Danny) Costello
- Chris Haywood as Able Seaman A.D. 'Sparrer' Bird
- John Waters as Sub-Lt. Ted 'Kingo' King
- Chun Ku as Rice Farmer
- Sylvia Chang as Chien Hua
- O Ti as Shaw Hu
- Chun-Hsiung Ko as Lin Chan-Lang
- Lung Shuan as Watanabe
- Yuan Yi as Imanaka
- Su Wei as Wong Chong
- Hsa Li-Wen as Lee Chang
- Val Champion as Ed Ayres
- Yu Wang as Oshiko Imoguchi
Director: Tim Burstall
Producer: Lee Robinson
Additional Details
Label: Severin Films
Genre: Action/Adventure
Language: English
Run Time: 94 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 03/28/23
UPC: 760137118503