Hidekatsu Ishida was a pilot and flight instructor. Because of his good looks he was given a contract with the Nihon Eiga Film Company to play aviators in movies. His first film after the 1932 Olympics, however, was a documentary about swimming titled “The Shadow of Water Conquest,” but his movie career as an actor never materialized. One year later, he was accused of flying over Tokyo without permission to shoot some sequences for a film about a baseball game. He died at the age of 36 in World War II as a member of the Special Flight Unit of the Imperial Army.
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