New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line

Name: New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
Director: Yasuzō Masumura
Released: 1972-04-22
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Shintarō Katsu, Takahiro Tamura, Joe Shishido, Michiyo Yasuda, Koichi Ose

April 22, 1972

1h 32m

TMDB7.1· 14

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.