Genre: War
Release Date: 03/13/2007
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: Japanese
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 104 Minutes
Flags: Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: Criterion

Kon Ichikawa's adaptation of Shohei Ooka's novel Nobi takes place in the Philippines at the end of World War II. The Japanese army is in hasty retreat from the incoming American forces. The soldiers have also been warned that the Americans will take no live prisoners, and so their flight is all the more desperate. One group of men harbors a soldier named Tamura (Eiji Funakoshi) suffering from the last stages of tuberculosis. Knowing he is facing imminent death anyway, Tamura is able to resist submitting to the chaos and demoralization that overtake his fellow soldiers (who fall so far as to commit murder, cannibalism, and go insane). Eventually Tamura becomes involved with a couple that has returned in order to pick up a cache of salt. He shoots the wife and chases off the husband, bringing him one step closer to losing his humanity.

~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Eiji Funakoshi - Tamura
Mantaro Ushio - Sergeant
Yoshihiro Hamaguchi - Officer
Osamu Takizawa - Yasuda
Mickey Curtis - Nagamatsu
Asao Sano - Soldier
Kyu Sazanka - Army Surgeon

Production:
Kon Ichikawa - Director
Masaichi Nagata - Producer
Yasushi Akutagawa - Composer
Hiroaki Fujii Kon Ichikawa - Editor
Natto Wada - Screen Writer
Tokuji Shibata - Art Director
Setsuo Kobayashi - Cinematographer
Shohei Ooka - Book Author

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