# Desperado Outpost (1959)

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**Original title**: *独立愚連隊*
**Runtime**: 109 min
**Genres**: War, Action, Drama
**Directed by**: Kihachi Okamoto
**Written by**: Kihachi Okamoto
**Starring**: Makoto Satō, Izumi Yukimura, Yōsuke Natsuki, Misa Uehara, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Michirō Minami

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, raw

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