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1966

Rikugun Nakano gakko

The School of Spies

陸軍中野学校

(c)KADOKAWA CORPORATION 1966

(c)KADOKAWA CORPORATION 1966

Release Date
June, 4th, 1966
Running Time
96 min
Genre
Feature
Color
Monochrome
Screening Format
-,HDCAM SR
Screen Size
Cinema Scope (1:2.35)

[ Directed by ]

[ Cast ]

[ Staff ]

[ Production Company ]

DAIEI

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

DAIEI

[ Story ]

In 1938 the Imperial Japanese Army opened the famous Nakano school, an organization devoted to the training of spies. The men were all hand picked including one (Raizo Ichikawa, star of Kon Ichikawa's "Conflagration"). Cut off from the world for a year while training his character changes. In the meantime his sweetheart he left behind is attempting to find him. But when the time comes, he has so changed tand can kill her without remorse. The film is directed by Yasuzo Masumura who made the exceptional anti-war comedy, "The Hoodlum Soldier".

【Quoted from the database of Kadokawa Corporation】
【Quoted from Unijapan Film Quarterly 1966 9.4】

[ Contact (International) ]

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