

A group of rank-and-file soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.
Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
User score
22 votes

Released
October 31, 1956
1h 50m
English, Japanese

Torahiko Hamada
Yamashita

Kō Mishima
Yokota

Tsutomu Shimomoto
Kimura

Kinzō Shin
Kawanishi

Kōji Mitsui
Nishimura

Yūnosuke Itō
Heo (Korean)

Ryōhei Uchida
Yokota's brother

Toshiko Kobayashi
Yamashita's sister
Ryuji Kita

Keiko Kishi
Yoshiko

Eitarō Ozawa
Hamada

Yūko Mochizuki
Hamada's wife

Unpei Yokoyama
Grandfather

Minoru Ōki
War criminal

Tomo'o Nagai
War criminal
Yoshiko Togawa
Woman in red-light district

Tomio Aoki
Toshirō Hayano

Hiroshi Hijikata

Takeshi Katō