Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
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A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits continues to deny her a pension. Twenty-six years after the war, she seeks out four survivors of her husband's garrison. Each tells a dramatically different story about her husband's conduct, but she is determined to learn the truth.
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Sachiko Hidari
Sakie Togashi
Tetsuro Tamba
Sergeant Katsuo Togashi
Noboru Mitani
Pvt. Tsuguo Terajima
Sanae Nakahara
Mrs. Ochi
Yumiko Fujita
Tomoko Togashi
Shinjirō Ehara
Lt. Goto
Taketoshi Naitō
Tadahiko Ohashi
Kôichi Yamamoto
Ministry of Health and Welfare
Kan'emon Nakamura
Takeo Senda
Shônosuke Ichikawa
Nobuyuki Ochi
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watchman
December 25, 2013
No big-budget battle picture, this is a small, intimate chamber of moral horrors. Fukasaku spares neither his characters nor his viewers to deliver a personal anti-war film that indicts an entire social system. People are tested to the breaking point, without meaning or goal except to escape a m…
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