# Army (1944)

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**Original title**: *陸軍*
**Runtime**: 87 min
**Genres**: Drama, War
**Directed by**: Keisuke Kinoshita
**Written by**: Tadao Ikeda
**Starring**: Chishū Ryū, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eijirō Tōno, Ken Uehara, Ken Mitsuda, Haruko Sugimura

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You stand conscripted by bloodline into a war that wars against your own body. Then the orders arrive. A military pedigree demands your bones even before your health allows it. The film observes how a nation’s oldest duty becomes a private agony laid bare on screen.

**Mood tags**: gut-punch, outsider

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