New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line

(1972)

★ 7.1 IMDb · 14 votes

Year: 1972

Runtime: 92 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 増村保造

Cast: 勝新太郎, 田村高廣, Дзё Сисидо, 大楠道代, 大瀬康一, Хидэдзи Оотаки, 滝川潤, 松山照夫, Gorō Kudan, 勝村淳

Plot

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.