Five Scouts (1938)
1h 10m
Running Time
January 7, 1938Release Date
Five Scouts (1938)
1h 10m
Running Time
January 7, 1938Release Date
Plot.
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)
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Cast & Crew.
Isamu Kosugi
Platoon leader Okada
Bontarō Miake
Sgt. Fujimoto
Ichirō Izawa
Pvt. Koguchi
Shirô Izome
Cpl. Nakamura
Tomotaka Tasaka
Director
Yoshio Aramaki
Writer
Saburō Isayama
Cinematographer
Hikaru Hoshi
Actor
Details.
Release DateJanuary 7, 1938
Original Name五人の斥候兵
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 10m
Genres
Wiki.
Five Scouts (五人の斥候兵, Gonin no sekkōhei) is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by Tomotaka Tasaka. It won best film at the 1939 Kinema Junpo Awards and was nominated best film at the 1938 Venice International Film Festival.