is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by
Tomotaka Tasaka
was a Japanese film director.
Career
Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, he began working at Nikkatsu's Kyoto studio in 1924 and eventually came to prominence for a series of realist, humanist films made at Nikkatsu's Tamagawa studio in the late 193 ...
. It won best film at the 1939
Kinema Junpo Awards
, commonly called , is Japan's oldest film magazine and began publication in July 1919. It was first published three times a month, using the Japanese ''Jun'' (旬) system of dividing months into three parts, but the postwar ''Kinema Junpō'' ha ...
and was nominated best film at the
1938 Venice International Film Festival.
Cast
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Hikaru Hoshi
is a Japanese unisex given name meaning "light" or "radiance".
Possible writings
Hikaru can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
* 光, "light"
* 輝, "radiance"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. It is m ...
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Ichirō Izawa
, also written Ichiro, Ichirou or Ichiroh is a masculine Japanese given name. The name is occasionally given to the first-born son in a family.
Like many Japanese names, Ichirō can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
* 一 ...
... Pvt. Koguchi
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Shirō Izome ... Cpl. Nakamura
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Isamu Kosugi
was a Japanese actor and film director.
Career
Born in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, Kosugi first studied at the Nihon Eiga Haiyū Gakkō before joining the Nikkatsu studio in 1925. He came to prominence in tendency films such as '' Ikeru ...
... Platoon Leader
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1938 films
Nikkatsu films
Japanese war films
Best Film Kinema Junpo Award winners
1938 war films
Japanese black-and-white films
1930s Japanese-language films
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