Vanished Enlisted Man (1955)
In June 1941, Captain Kagawa (Ryutaro Tatsumi), who had just graduated from the military academy, was assigned as the captain of a sentry patrol in Beiman, which was located on the opposite side of the Heilongjiang River from the Semidomka region of the Soviet Union. His predecessor, Lieutenant Kishi (Kawamura Kenichiro), a mild-mannered middle-aged man, had earned the trust of his men and the villagers by relaxing his military duties. However, newly appointed Lieutenant Kagawa thinks that Kishi's way of doing things is sloppy and begins to train the soldiers furiously in order to teach them a lesson.
Director:
Akira Mimura
Writers:
Akira Kurosawa, Ryuzo Kikushima.
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Ryūtarō Tatsumi as |
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Kenichiro Kawamura as |
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Katsumi Oyama as |
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Akira Shimizu as |
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Kenjirō Ishiyama as |
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Daijirō Higashi as |
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茂木昇二郎 as |
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Seiichirō Nomura as |
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Akiko Kikuno as |
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Yukiko Shimazaki as |
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Shōgo Shimada as |
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Kuniko Yamamura as |
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沢耕二 as |
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Michiko Umehara as |
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Ryōha Hatanaka as |
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初瀬乙羽 as |
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岡田映一 as |
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伊藤勇 as |
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飯田徹 as |
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小村俊明 as |
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Yasumasa Oka as |
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宮島誠 as |
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吉田柳児 as |
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宮本曠二郎 as |
| Writing | Akira Kurosawa | Screenplay |
| Writing | Ryuzo Kikushima | Screenplay |
| Directing | Akira Mimura | Director |
| Sound | Seitaro Omori | Original Music Composer |