Film

Fort Graveyard

1965 · 2h 12m · Drama · War · Comedy

Their lives were short, but their music will live on forever.

IMDb

7.5

Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.

Toshirō Mifune

Sergeant Kosugi

Makoto Satō

Inuyama

Reiko Dan

Oharu

Yūnosuke Itō

Mochida

Tatsuya Nakadai

Sakuma

Hideyo Amamoto

Shiga

Tōru Ibuki

Sanpo

Akira Nagoya

Nezu

Hiroshi Hasegawa

Nakano

Kenzaburo Osawa

Harada

Katsumi Nezu

Oga

Ben Hiura

Yoshino

Koichi Nakamura

Ueki

Akira Nishikawa

Tsuboi

Toyoyuki Kimura

Okawa

Shigeru Kinami

Chin

• Kihachi OkamotoDirector · Screenplay
• Susumu SajiScreenplay
• Tomoyuki TanakaProducer
• Rokurô NishigakiDirector of Photography
• Masaru SatōOriginal Music Composer
• Yoshitami KuroiwaEditor

Release date

September 18, 1965

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

2h 12m

Genres

Drama, War, Comedy