1937 Japan made a sports bro-mance about sex work and nobody told you?
During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman who may be a prostitute.
Direction
Shimizu shoots military drills like they're dance numbers.
Cinematography
Beach scenes that make 1937 look impossibly modern.
Director
Hiroshi Shimizu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shimizu was famous for location shooting and using non-professional actors, which explains the weirdly naturalistic energy in a studio-era film.
The 'prostitute' ambiguity is deliberate—1937 censorship meant Shimizu could only imply, making her absence from the final scenes devastatingly unclear.
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