Five Scouts
movie
Released January 07, 1938
Overview
An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A company commander calls on five men. They are to reconnoiter, but on their way they are attacked. Only four of them return. While his companions mourn the fifth straggles back. Soon after comes the order to move out for a general attack. The men know that this time there will be no returning." (Donald Richie)
Cast
Isamu Kosugi
as
Unit Commander Okada
Bontarō Miake
as
Sergeant Fujimoto
Ichirō Izawa
as
Private Kiguchi
Shirô Izome
as
Private Nakamura
- no image
Toshinosuke Nagao
as
Private Endo
Hikaru Hoshi
as
Private Nagano
- no image
Toshimasa Inoue
as
Private Masaki
- no image
Kiyoshi Watabe
as
Private Inoue
Mantarō Ushio
as
Private Tanaka
- no image
Haruhiko Nishi
as
Corporal Yasuda
- no image
Enji Satô
as
Military doctor
- no image
Ryôichi Kikuchi
as
Messenger
