Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (Under the Fluttering Military Flag) (1972)

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Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (Under the Fluttering Military Flag)

ORIGINAL TITLE

Gunki hatameku motoni - Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (Under the Fluttering Military Flag)

YEAR

1972

RUNNING TIME

96 min.

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COUNTRY

DIRECTOR

Kinji Fukasaku

SCREENWRITER

Kinji Fukasaku, Norio Osada, Kaneto Shindô (Novel: Shoji Yuki)

COMPOSER

Hikaru Hayashi

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Hiroshi Segawa

CAST

Tetsuro Tamba, Sachiko Hidari, Shinjiro Ebara, Isao Natsuyagi, Sanae Nakahara, Yumiko Fujita, Noboru Mitani, Taketoshi Naitô, Kanemon Nakamura

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd.

GENRE

War. Drama. Mystery | Historical. II World War. The 40s. The 70s

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

Japanese auteur Kinji Fukasaku examines the trauma of World War II in his home country in the docu-drama UNDER THE FLAG OF THE RISING SUN (GUNKI HATAMEKU MOTONI). Taking his cue from HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR, Fukasaku combines a fictional drama with documentary segments illustrating and reinforcing the film's central themes. Mrs. Togashi (Sachiko Hidari) had a husband who was court martialed and executed in the final days of World War II, and as a result receives no pension from the government. Many years on, the army will still not tell her the circumstances of his death, so she embarks on an investigation of her own. Conducting interviews with a number of her husband's former comrades, she discovers a RASHOMON-like story of both heroism and villainy, bravery and cowardice. Suggesting that perhaps the truth is lost in the chaos of wartime, UNDER THE FLAG OF THE RISING SUN is a powerful examination of a terrible moment in Japanese history.

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