6.5
Cloak and Dagger
1946
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972)
March 12, 19721h 36mJA
7.5
29 votes
Overview
A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits continues to deny her a pension. Twenty-six years after the war, she seeks out four survivors of her husband's garrison. Each tells a dramatically different story about her husband's conduct, but she is determined to learn the truth.
Director
Kinji FukasakuWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
Budget
N/A
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
TOHOShinsei Eigasha
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9.0No big-budget battle picture, this is a small, intimate chamber of moral horrors. Fukasaku spares neither his characters nor his viewers to deliver a personal anti-war film that indicts an entire social system. People are tested to the breaking point, without meaning or goal except to escape a miserable death. By the end of the story, you are invited to conclude that no one who felt the brunt of the war survived it; that in truth the Japanese nation did not survive. Those who stay more or less intact seem frankly superhuman. Prominently featured: sham leadership, ethical vacuity, corrup…
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