A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits continues to deny her a pension. Twenty-six years after the war, she seeks out four survivors of her husband's garrison. Each tells a dramatically different story about her husband's conduct, but she is determined to learn the truth.
- 7.6
- 1972
- Released
- 1h 36m
Sachiko Hidari
Sakie Togashi
Tetsuro Tamba
Sergeant Katsuo Togashi
Noboru Mitani
Pvt. Tsuguo Terajima
Sanae Nakahara
Mrs. Ochi
Yumiko Fujita
Tomoko Togashi
Shinjirō Ehara
Lt. Goto
Taketoshi Naitō
Tadahiko Ohashi
Kôichi Yamamoto
Ministry of Health and Welfare
Kan'emon Nakamura
Takeo Senda
Shônosuke Ichikawa
Nobuyuki OchiTakeshi Seki
Tomoyuki Akiba
Nenji Kobayashi
Isao Natsuyagi
Private Sakai
Paul Maki
Self
Mugihito
Hachizô Fujikawa
Harukazu Kitami
Hiroshi Kitasôma
Takashi Sue
Mayumi Fujisato
Pvt. Sakai's WifeYûko Hideshima
Kazuko Utsumi
Setsuko Tanaka
Yoshikazu Sugi
Gōzō Sōma
Masazumi Okabe
Hirotaka Motoyama
Shigeru Mochimaru
Jack Maurice
Satarō Taki
Sakae Umezu
Koji Miemachi
Released
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No big-budget battle picture, this is a small, intimate chamber of moral horrors. Fukasaku spares neither his characters nor his viewers to deliver a personal anti-war film that indicts an entire social system. People are tested to the breaking point, without meaning or goal except to escape a miserable death. By the end of the story, you are invited to conclude that no one who felt the brunt