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.

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Cast

Rentaro Mikuni

Yahichi Inumaru

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

Junkichi Orimoto

Sadako Sawamura

Toki, Yahichi's mother

Isao Tamagawa

Fumitake Ōmura