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Tale of Army Brutality

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.

1963 |1h 38m |  

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Cast

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Rentaro Mikuni

Yahichi Inumaru

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Katsuo Nakamura

Naokichi Suzuki

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Shinjirô Ehara

Tadayoshi Yazaki

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Kō Nishimura

Kameoka, Zenji

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Mitsuo Andō

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Kaneko Iwasaki

Ume, Yahichi's wife

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Yoshi Katō

Seikichi, Yahichi's father

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Michirō Minami

Oshikawa

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Shoji Nakayama

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Junkichi Orimoto

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Sadako Sawamura

Toki, Yahichi's mother

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Isao Tamagawa

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Fumitake Ōmura

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Status

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Language

Japanese

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