Der Deserteur

You seek vengeance for your brother's murder at a desolate outpost in China. You arrive posing as a journalist. But a clash with bandits reveals hidden truths. Okamoto’s early war film simmers with the genre’s moral ambiguities. It leaves one with a sense of lives spent, and lost, far from home.

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Kihachi Okamoto directed Der Deserteur in 1959. See Kihachi Okamoto's full filmography, where to start with Kihachi Okamoto, or where to go after you've seen everything by Kihachi Okamoto.

Der Deserteur was released in 1959 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 109 minutes.