New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line

Name: New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
Released: 1972-04-22
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Shintarō Katsu, Takahiro Tamura

新兵隊やくざ火線 (1972)

1:32 (92 min)

Japan

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Production

Katsu Production, TOHO

Release date

22 April 1972

Director

Yasuzō Masumura

Scenario

Yorichika Arima

Author

Composer

Kunihiko Murai

Producer

Shintarō Katsu

All team (13)

Actors

Shintarō Katsu

Kisaburo Omiya

Takahiro Tamura

Arita

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Short description

The story is presented as a voiced-over narrative by Arita (Takahiro Tamura), speaking long after the events of the film. In a remote army base in Manchuria, near the Soviet border, long-serving corporal Arita hates the military and looks forward to the day he may leave. Although a university graduate, he has several times deliberately failed the exam for promotion and thus remains a corporal after four years' service.

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