Army
Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.
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Kinoshita’s ambitious and intensely moving film begins as a multigenerational epic about the military legacy of one Japanese family, before settling into an emotionally complex portrayal of parental love during wartime. As the mother and father of a boy shipped off to battle, Kinuyo Tanaka and Chishu Ryu locate profound depths of feeling that transcend ideology.
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- Director
- Keisuke Kinoshita
- Starring
- Chishū Ryū, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eijirō Tōno, Ken Uehara, Ken Mitsuda, Haruko Sugimura, Kazumasa Hoshino, Fujio Nagahama
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