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Tale of Army Brutality (1963)

Directed by Jun'ya Satô

Overview

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.

Length 98 minutes

Actors

Rentarô Mikuni | Katsuo Nakamura | Shinjirô Ehara | Kô Nishimura | Mitsuo Andô | Kaneko Iwasaki | Yoshi Katô | Michirô Minami | Shoji Nakayama | Akemi Nara | Junkichi Orimoto | Sadako Sawamura | Isao Tamagawa | Fumitake Ômura