

Tale of Army Brutality
June 14, 1963•1h 38m•★ 9.5
DramaWar
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.
Director
Junya SatōWriters
Cast

Rentaro Mikuni
Yahichi Inumaru
?
Katsuo Nakamura
Naokichi Suzuki

Shinjirō Ehara
Tadayoshi Yazaki

Kō Nishimura
Kameoka, Zenji

Mitsuo Andō

Kaneko Iwasaki
Ume, Yahichi's wife

Yoshi Katō
Seikichi, Yahichi's father

Michirō Minami
Oshikawa

Shoji Nakayama
?
Akemi Nara

Junkichi Orimoto

Sadako Sawamura
Toki, Yahichi's mother

Isao Tamagawa

Fumitake Ōmura