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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Toshirō MifuneSergeant Kosugi
Makoto SatōInuyama
Reiko DanOharu
Yūnosuke ItōMochida
Tatsuya NakadaiSakuma
Hideyo AmamotoShiga
Tōru IbukiSanpo
Akira NagoyaNezu
Kenzaburo OsawaHarada
Ben HiuraYoshinoExplore the crew
- Director
- Kihachi Okamoto
- Director of Photography
- Rokurô Nishigaki
- Original Music Composer
- Masaru Satō
- Screenplay
- Kihachi Okamoto
- Screenplay
- Susumu Saji
- Producer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Editor
- Yoshitami Kuroiwa