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.
Junya Satō
Director

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
Waiting for Anya62%
Jacknife63%
The Kill Team64%
The Beast70%
Ararat61%
Fort Bliss64%
Stop-Loss61%
The Last Rifleman66%
Behold a Pale Horse60%
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell68%
Devotion70%
Birdy71%
The One That Got Away68%
Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines60%
The Scarlet and the Black70%
Cast a Giant Shadow63%
Boudica58%
The World Will Tremble74%
Flags of Our Fathers68%
The Grey Zone65%