Five Scouts

Original title: 五人の斥候兵
Duration: 70 min
Release date: 1938-01-07
IMDB

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)

War Drama

五人の斥候兵

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