Desperado Outpost

The film is set in the years of the Second World War. The place is a Japanese outpost in northern China. A soldier is killed at the outpost. The dead man is Sergeant Okubo’s brother. Okubo wants to find out what happened on the spot. But he does not go in uniform. He presents himself as a war correspondent. That is how he gets into the outpost. There he talks with the soldiers and the officers. What they tell him does not add up. Okubo keeps looking for the killer. The way the outpost runs itself slowly becomes visible too. The account makes room for humour along the way. Makoto Satō and Izumi Yukimura take the leads, with Yōsuke Natsuki also in the cast, in Kihachi Okamoto’s Japanese film of 1959.