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.
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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni, Katsuo Nakamura, Shinjirô Ehara, Kō Nishimura, Mitsuo Andō, Kaneko Iwasaki, Yoshi Katō, Michirō Minami, Shoji Nakayama, Akemi Nara, Junkichi Orimoto, Sadako Sawamura, Isao Tamagawa
Crew: Yasuo Furuhata (Assistant Director), Masaru Satō (Original Music Composer), Gorō Tanada (Screenplay), Hanjirō Nakazawa (Director of Photography), Junya Satō (Director)