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.
as Sergeant Kosugi
as Inuyama
as Oharu
as Mochida
as Sakuma
as Shiga
as Sanpo
as Nezu
as Nakano
as Harada
as Oga
as Yoshino
as Ueki
as Tsuboi
as Okawa
as Chin
as Sugiyama
as Inamoto
as Deguchi