Five Scouts

Five Scouts (1938)

五人の斥候兵

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, a five-man reconnaissance unit is dispatched to scout enemy positions in a volatile territory. After a sudden and intense firefight, the group is separated, leaving the survivors to wait in agonizing suspense at their outpost.

Date of release
1938-01-07
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 10m
Genres
War, Drama
Director
Tomotaka Tasaka

Casting

Interesting facts

Five Scouts is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by Tomotaka Tasaka. It won best film at the 1939 Kinema Junpo Awards and was nominated best film at the 1938 Venice International Film Festival.

Production

Five Scouts was the first significant Japanese feature film to depict the undeclared war in China. The government of Japan, eager to have films made which exalted the war effort, turned to Nikkatsu Studios because of their experience and expertise in making action films - even though they were usually in historic settings. Neither director Tomotaka Tasaka nor screenwriter Ryozo Kazahara had served in the Japanese Army.

Five Scouts was inspired by Japanese newspaper coverage released in the first month of the China Incident. The characters' names were taken from real-life Japanese soldiers named in the text.

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