Fort Graveyard

Fort Graveyard

132 mins | Drama, War | Sept. 18, 1965

Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.

Fort Graveyard

132 mins | Drama, War | Sept. 18, 1965

Fort Graveyard
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers Toho Company, Ltd., Mifune Production Co., Ltd.
Original title 血と砂
Directors Kihachi Okamoto
Writers Susumu Saji, Kihachi Okamoto

Cast

Toshirō Mifune

as Sergeant Kosugi

Makoto Satō

as Inuyama

Reiko Dan

as Oharu

Yūnosuke Itō

as Mochida

Tatsuya Nakadai

as Sakuma

Hideyo Amamoto

as Shiga

Tôru Ibuki

as Sanpo

Akira Nagoya

as Nezu

Hiroshi Hasegawa

as Nakano

Kenzaburo Osawa

as Harada

Katsumi Nezu

as Oga

Ben Hiura

as Yoshino

Koichi Nakamura

as Ueki

Akira Nishikawa

as Tsuboi

Toyoyuki Kimura

as Okawa

Shigeru Kinami

as Chin

Keiichi Taki

as Sugiyama

Kôji Uno

as Inamoto

Shigeo Katô

as Deguchi