Attack Force Z (alternatively titled The Z Men)[1] is a 1982 Australian-Taiwanese[2] World War II film directed by Tim Burstall.

Kelly (Gibson), who leads a team from the elite Z Special Unit against the Empire of Japan during the Second World War.

In the Straits of Sembaleng, five men are dispatched by submarine in Klepper canoes to rescue survivors of a shot-down plane on a nearby island which is occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army.

Led by Paul Kelly, an inexperienced commando officer, the team secretly lands on the island and hides their kayaks.

As they venture in land, Ted 'Kingo' King is hit by fire from an unseen machine gun post, the team quickly eliminates the Japanese defenders and return to their wounded comrade.

King cannot be allowed to fall into enemy hands and compromise the mission under interrogation, and after sharing a cigarette with him, Costello shoots him.

The four remaining men return to their search; coming across a rice farmer, they learn of the area in which the plane crashed.

One of them is a defecting Japanese government official Imoguchi, and he is believed to hold a secret that could end the war faster.

[8] Among the changes made were adding a fifth character to the team - a soldier played by John Waters who would be killed within the opening ten minutes by one of their own men.