Shooting on location in China, Tomotaka Tasaka presents a low-key but stirring account of the day-to-day travails and camaraderie of Japanese soldiers, swapping individual heroics for devotion to the group spirit. Tasaka’s typically clear-eyed treatment, which includes an extraordinary battle scene and an assault on a farmhouse, was so documentary-like in its feel for detail that when Americans later captured a print of the film, it was edited into a training reel for U.S. Troops.
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Mud and Soldiers
(Tsuchi no Herai)
- Japan
- 1939
- Fiction
- Noir & Blanc
- 119′
- Japanese
- 35 mm
- Titre français
Mud and Soldiers - Original title
Tsuchi no Herai - Scénario
Saburo Isayama, Tatsuyuki Yokota - Musique
Eiso Nakagaswa - Interprétation
Isamu Kosugi, Izome Shiro, Bontaro Miake - Ventes internationales
NFC (National Film Center of Tokyo)