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