Flight from Ashiya aka Ashiya Kara no hiko is a 1964 film about the U.S. Air Force's Air Rescue Service, flying from Ashiya Air Field, Japan. In this fictionalized American-Japanese co-production film set in the early 1960s, a flight crew's mission is to rescue a liferaft of Japanese civilians stranded in rough seas. Flight from Ashiya was based on the 1959 novel by Elliott Arnold. The film was released in Japan as Ashiya Kara no hiko.