Kurenai no Tsubasa (, lit. Crimson Wings) is a 1958 black and white Japanese film directed and co-written by KÃ Â Nakahira.
On Hachijojima island, a child suffers from tetanus and urgently needs serum delivered. The pilot Ishida Yasuji ends up flying a small Cessna after a larger airplane breaks down. Newspaper reporter Yukie and Ohashi, who originally chartered the Cessna, accompany him, but Ohashi, who has just killed a man, forces Ishida to land the plane on a small island along the way in an attempt to escape capture.
Nikkatsu released the film on December 28, 1958, in Japan. The film became one of the biggest Japanese box office hits of the 1950s.