Overview
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.
Cast
- Toshirō Mifune as Sergeant Kosugi
- Makoto Satō as Inuyama
- Reiko Dan as Oharu
- Yūnosuke Itō as Mochida
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Sakuma
- Hideyo Amamoto as Shiga
- Tōru Ibuki as Sanpo
- Akira Nagoya as Nezu
- Hiroshi Hasegawa as Nakano
- Kenzaburo Osawa as Harada