New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line (1972)
新兵隊やくざ 火線
The story is presented as a voiced-over narrative by Arita (Takahiro Tamura), speaking long after the events of the film. In a remote army base in Manchuria, near the Soviet border, long-serving corporal Arita hates the military and looks forward to the day he may leave. Although a university graduate, he has several times deliberately failed the exam for promotion and thus remains a corporal after four years' service.
- Date of release
- 1972-04-22
- TMDB
- 7.1 / 10 (14)
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Director
- Yasuzō Masumura
- Collection
- The Hoodlum Soldier Collection
Casting
- Shintarō Katsu — Kisaburo Omiya
- Takahiro Tamura — Arita
- Joe Shishido
- Michiyo Yasuda
- Koichi Ose
- Hideji Ōtaki
- Jun Takigawa
- Teruo Matsuyama
- Gorō Kudan
- Jun Katsumura
- Chikara Hashimoto
- Yukio Horikita
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