Film

New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line

1972 · 1h 32m

IMDb

6.8

The story is presented as a voiced-over narrative by Arita (Takahiro Tamura), speaking long after the events of the film. In a remote army base in Manchuria, near the Soviet border, long-serving corporal Arita hates the military and looks forward to the day he may leave. Although a university graduate, he has several times deliberately failed the exam for promotion and thus remains a corporal after four years' service.

Shintarō Katsu

Kisaburo Omiya

Takahiro Tamura

Arita

Joe Shishido

Michiyo Yasuda

Koichi Ose

Hideji Ōtaki

Jun Takigawa

Teruo Matsuyama

Gorō Kudan

Jun Katsumura

Chikara Hashimoto

Yukio Horikita

Kazuo Mortuchi

Tsuyotake Matsuda

Katsuyoshi Baba

Tamotsu Fujiharu

• Yasuzō MasumuraDirector · Screenplay
• Masatoshi TojoScreenplay
• Yorichika ArimaNovel
• Shintarō KatsuProducer
• Ikuo KuboderaExecutive Producer
• Setsuo KobayashiDirector of Photography
• Kunihiko MuraiOriginal Music Composer
• Toshio TaniguchiEditor

Release date

April 22, 1972

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 32m