Tale of Army Brutality (1963)
陸軍残虐物語
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.
- Date of release
- 1963-06-14
- TMDB
- 9.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Director
- Junya Satō
Casting
- 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
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