New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line

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.

• Yasuzō MasumuraDirector
• Kunihiko MuraiOriginal Music Composer
• Masatoshi TojoScreenplay
• Yasuzō MasumuraScreenplay

• Shintarō KatsuKisaburo Omiya
• Takahiro TamuraArita
• Joe ShishidoCast
• Michiyo YasudaCast
• Koichi OseCast
• Hideji ŌtakiCast
• Jun TakigawaCast
• Teruo MatsuyamaCast
• Gorō KudanCast
• Jun KatsumuraCast
• Chikara HashimotoCast
• Yukio HorikitaCast