Army

Dec 7, 1944

1h 27m

★ 6.9

Overview

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.

Genres

Drama

War

Production Companies

Shochiku

Army Trailers

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Cast

Tomosuke Takagi

Chishū Ryū

Waka

Kinuyo Tanaka

Sakuragi

Eijirō Tōno

Nishina

Ken Uehara

Tomonojo

Ken Mitsuda

Setsu

Haruko Sugimura

Shintaro, Son

Kazumasa Hoshino

Fujita

Fujio Nagahama

Captain

Shin Saburi

Kaneko

Shūji Sano

Hayashi

Toshio Hosokawa

Takeuchi

Yasumi Hara

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