Film

Etajima, the Naval Academy

1959 · 1h 45m · Drama · War · Mystery

The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbearing father who held the whip-hand over his gentle mother. Out of defiance of his step-father he became wayward. But he was bright and his teacher persuaded him to enter the Academy as he knew that if he left home, his mother need not feel apologetic towards her husband on his account. Discipline was strict, their studies were hard and, in between, all the new cadets received an ample share of beatings, at the hands of the senior cadets, for the slightest mistakes. Murase thought all picked on him the most, especially Cadet First Class Kogure, who manhandled him at the slightest excuse.

Katsuhiko Kobayashi

Ryutaro Ishikawa

Shōzō Nanbu

Sakutaro Ishikawa

Kōjirō Hongō

Keiji Noguchi

Ryuichi Ishii

Tazuko Niki

Kenji Sugawara

Yoshirō Kitahara

Jun Negami

Osamu Takizawa

Taro Momoyama

Hiroko Yajima

Bontarō Miake

Kuniko Miyake

Yoko Hayama

Kōichi Itō

• Mitsuo MurayamaDirector
• Kazuo FunahashiScreenplay
• Tomohiro AkinoDirector of Photography
• Chūji KinoshitaOriginal Music Composer

Release date

September 6, 1959

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 45m

Genres

Drama, War, Mystery