98 minutes
6/14/1963
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.
Rentaro Mikuni
as Yahichi Inumaru
Katsuo Nakamura
as Naokichi Suzuki
Shinjirō Ehara
as Tadayoshi Yazaki
Kō Nishimura
as Kameoka, Zenji
Mitsuo Andō
Kaneko Iwasaki
as Ume, Yahichi's wife
Yoshi Katō
as Seikichi, Yahichi's father
Michirō Minami
as Oshikawa
Shoji Nakayama
Akemi Nara
Junkichi Orimoto
Sadako Sawamura
as Toki, Yahichi's mother
Isao Tamagawa
Fumitake Ōmura