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
Toshirō Mifune
Sergeant Kosugi
Makoto Satō
Inuyama
Reiko Dan
Oharu
Yūnosuke Itō
Mochida
Tatsuya Nakadai
Sakuma
Hideyo Amamoto
Shiga
Tōru Ibuki
Sanpo
Akira Nagoya
Nezu
Hiroshi Hasegawa
Nakano
Kenzaburo Osawa
Harada
Katsumi Nezu
Oga
Ben Hiura
Yoshino
Koichi Nakamura
Ueki
Akira Nishikawa
Tsuboi
Toyoyuki Kimura
Okawa
Shigeru Kinami
Chin
Keiichi Taki
Sugiyama
Kôji Uno
Inamoto
Shigeo Katō
Deguchi
Nadao Kirino
Unknown
Toku Ihara
Unknown
Kazuo Suzuki
Unknown
Shin Ibuki
Unknown
Ikio Sawamura
Unknown
Koji Kosugi
Unknown
Kyoko Mori
Unknown
Tamami Urayama
Unknown
Michiko Kawa
Unknown
Ippei Kawashima
Unknown
