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.
Top Cast
Rentaro Mikuni as Yahichi Inumaru
Katsuo Nakamura as Naokichi Suzuki
Shinjirō Ehara as Tadayoshi Yazaki
Kō Nishimura as Kameoka, Zenji
Mitsuo Andō as
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