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Under the Flag of the Rising Sun( 1972)

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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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Sachiko Hidari

      Sakie Togashi

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      Tetsuro Tamba

      Sergeant Katsuo Togashi

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      Noboru Mitani

      Pvt. Tsuguo Terajima

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      Sanae Nakahara

      Mrs. Ochi

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      Yumiko Fujita

      Tomoko Togashi

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      Shinjirô Ehara

      Lt. Goto

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      Taketoshi Naitō

      Tadahiko Ohashi

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      Kôichi Yamamoto

      Ministry of Health and Welfare

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      Kan'emon Nakamura

      Takeo Senda

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      Shônosuke Ichikawa

      Nobuyuki Ochi

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      Takeshi Seki

      Tomoyuki Akiba

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      Nenji Kobayashi

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      Isao Natsuyagi

      Private Sakai

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      Paul Maki

      Self

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      Mugihito

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      Hachizô Fujikawa

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      Harukazu Kitami

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      Hiroshi Kitasôma

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      Takashi Sue

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      Mayumi Fujisato

      Pvt. Sakai's Wife

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      Yûko Hideshima

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      Kazuko Utsumi

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      Setsuko Tanaka

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      Yoshikazu Sugi

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      Gōzō Sōma

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      Masazumi Okabe

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      Hirotaka Motoyama

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      Takashi Matsumoto

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      Shigeru Mochimaru

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      Jack Maurice

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      Satarō Taki

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      Shintarô Mishima

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      Sakae Umezu

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      Koji Miemachi

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    A review by watchman

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    Written by watchman on Wed Dec 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 miserable death. By the end of the story, you are invited to conclude that no one who felt the brunt of the war survived it; that in truth the Japanese nation did not survive. Those who stay more or less intact seem frankly superhuman. Prominently featured: sham leadership, ethical vacuity, corrupt...

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    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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