Tale of Army Brutality

1h 38m
DramaWar
10

Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during World War II, where in the first two years of training, ordinary people were turned into inhuman killers. For his first film, the director was awarded the Blue Ribbon Awards in the Debutant of the Year nomination.

Cast

Rentaro Mikuni
Yahichi Inumaru
Katsuo Nakamura
Naokichi Suzuki
Shinjirō Ehara
Tadayoshi Yazaki
Kō Nishimura
Kameoka, Zenji
Mitsuo Andō
Unknown
Kaneko Iwasaki
Ume, Yahichi's wife
Yoshi Katō
Seikichi, Yahichi's father
Michirō Minami
Oshikawa
Shoji Nakayama
Unknown
Akemi Nara
Unknown
Junkichi Orimoto
Unknown
Sadako Sawamura
Toki, Yahichi's mother
Isao Tamagawa
Unknown
Fumitake Ōmura
Unknown

Crew

Junya Satō
Director
Gorō Tanada
Screenplay
Hanjirō Nakazawa
Director of Photography
Yasuo Furuhata
Assistant Director
Masaru Satō
Original Music Composer

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