Song of the Canefields [さとうきび畑の唄]

Release Year
2003
Runtime
2h 39m
Genres
Drama
TV Movie
War
Directed By
Katsuo Fukuzawa
Song of the Canefields

Hirayama Koichi and his wife Michiko eloped from Osaka to Okinawa, where they lived happily with their five children. When war erupts, their eldest son is drafted into the Imperial army. As fighting spreads, the family takes refuge far from the city, but soon, child after child is drafted to serve in various branches of the military and in organizations supporting the war cause. Koichi himself is faced with a moral dilemma when he is ordered to kill a wounded American soldier.

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