Five Scouts
Release Date: 1938-01-07
Rating : 5.9/10
Duration : 70 minutes
Genres : War, Drama
Director : Tomotaka Tasaka
Writer : Yoshirô Aramaki
An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A company commander calls on five men. They are to reconnoiter, but on their way they are attacked. Only four of them return. While his companions mourn the fifth straggles back. Soon after comes the order to move out for a general attack. The men know that this time there will be no returning." (Donald Richie)
Cast
Isamu Kosugi
Bontarō Miake
Ichirō Izawa
Shirô Izome
Toshinosuke Nagao
Hikaru Hoshi