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.

• DirectorYasuzō Masumura
• Release22 April 1972
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• Duration1h 32m
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  6.9
  13 reviews
• Productions

  Katsu Production, TOHO