If you loved Nikudan, try Der Deserteur
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Both films are directed by Kihachi Okamoto, and they sit in Drama / War territory. If that's the register that drew you to Nikudan, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Der Deserteur is
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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