New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
Directed by Yasuzō Masumura
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.
Duration
1h 32m
Released
April 22, 1972
Cast19
Part ofThe The Hoodlum Soldier Collection
Includes Hoodlum Soldier (1965), New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line (1972), Hoodlum Soldier and the C.O. (1965), The Hoodlum Soldier Deserts Again (1966), The Front Line Showdown (1966), Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom (1966), Five Star Private (1967), Hoodlum Soldier on the Attack (1967), and Hoodlum Soldier: Looting and Pillaging (1968).
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