Their lives were short, but their music will live on forever.
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.
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- Toshirō MifuneSergeant Kosugi
- Makoto SatōInuyama
- Reiko DanOharu
- Yūnosuke ItōMochida
- Tatsuya NakadaiSakuma
- Hideyo AmamotoShiga
- Tōru IbukiSanpo
- Akira NagoyaNezu
- Hiroshi HasegawaNakano
- Kenzaburo OsawaHarada
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- Kihachi OkamotoDirector
- Susumu SajiScreenplay
- Kihachi OkamotoScreenplay
- Rokurô NishigakiDirector of Photography
- Masaru SatōOriginal Music Composer
- Yoshitami KuroiwaEditor
- Tomoyuki TanakaProducer
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