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LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF THE SEA (Kike wadatsumi no koe) (1950) * with switchable English subtitles *

Directed by Hideo Sekigawa Written by Kazuo Funahashi Produced by Mitsuo Makino Hajime Izu Aoji Yasumi Hara Kishino Akitake Konō Kawanishi Kinzō Shin Oki Haruko Sugimura Akiyama's mother Yuriko Hanabusa Kawanishi's mother Yōichi Numata Maki Sōji Kamishiro Shibayama Kōichi Hayashi Noomura Kyōsuke Tsuki Negishi Toshio Takahara combat medic Kazuo Tokita Matori Tokue Hanazawa Tsuruta Yoshio Ōmori Omachi Shōzō Inagaki Mita Tamotsu Kawasaki Akiyama Kiichi Sugi Kimura Asao Sano Yamada Kazuo Masabuchi Iijima Shōichi Onjō Chiba Tadashi Suganuma Jirō Kozaki Kieko Sawamura Yano Kōichi Fujima
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Burma during the last weeks of World War II: The remnants of a Japanese infantry unit are joined by Private Oki, whose own unit has been destroyed. Oki turns out to be the former University professor of some of the soldiers, many of which are drafted students. He is bullied by the sadistic adjutant of the commanding Lieutenant Kishino, himself an uneducated man, who dislikes students and academics. Close to the edge of starvation, a group of soldiers, led by squad leader Aoji, steal and slaughter the Lieutenant's horse. Upon discovery, Aoji is beaten, while the adjutant uses the incident as a pretence to execute Private Kawanishi, who overtly opposes the war. When the soldiers are sent out to battle against an outnumbering enemy, the wounded are left behind to commit suicide with hand grenades. 

DVD-R is in Japanese with switchable English subtitles. Approx. 107 mins. See film sample for audio and video quality!

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