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.
三国連太郎
as Yahichi Inumaru
中村嘉葎雄
as Naokichi Suzuki
江原真二郎
as Tadayoshi Yazaki
西村晃
as Kameoka, Zenji
安藤三男
as
岩崎加根子
as Ume, Yahichi's wife
加藤嘉
as Seikichi, Yahichi's father
南道郎
as Oshikawa
中山昭二
as
奈良あけみ
as
織本順吉
as
沢村貞子
as Toki, Yahichi's mother
