1944, in the depths of World War II. Toyomatsu Shimizu is a completely typical barber from a remote sea-side town who lives frugally but happily with his wife Fusae and their five-year-old son. Eventually, though, the army beckons and he is drafted. One day an officer on the battle-field orders him to kill a captive U.S. soldier. Although Toyomatsu lacks the spirit to kill the man, and only wounds him in the arm, the victorious U.S. soldiers will not accept this, and Toyomatsu is arrested and tried as a war-criminal. And he receives the cruelest sentence possible...
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Masahiro Nakai
Toyomatsu Shimizu
Yukie Nakama
Fusae Shimizu
Yuki Shibamoto
Toshiko
Masahiko Nishimura
Nemoto
Magi
Shokichi Sakai
Tsubasa Katô
Kenichi
Tetsuya Takeda
Takeuchi
Ainosuke Kataoka
Captain Hidaka
Tatsuo Nadaka
Major Adachi
Isao Takeno
Sergeant Kimura
Naomasa Musaka
Private Tateishi
Yoshiyoshi Arakawa
Private Takita
Pinko Izumi
Toshio's mother
Masatô Ibu
Commander Onoe
Takaya Kamikawa
Katsuo Fukuzawa
Director
Shinobu Hashimoto
Screenplay
Tetsutarō Katō
Novel
Kazuya Hamana
Executive Producer
Katsuaki Setoguchi
Producer
Yoshitaka Omori
Producer
Nobuhiro Azuma
Producer
Kosuke Matsushima
Director of Photography
Joe Hisaishi
Original Music Composer
Hirohide Abe
Editor
Kazuko Kurosawa
Costume Design
Tsuyoshi Shimizu
Production Design
