Five Scouts
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)
Top Billed Cast
Featured Crew
Tomotaka Tasaka
Director
Takashi Matsuyama
Production Design
Tatsuo Hirabayashi
Sound Recordist
Saburō Isayama
Director of Photography
Tomotaka Tasaka
Original Story
Yoshirô Aramaki
Screenplay