In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.

• Fuji Television Network
• Kinema Tokyo
• Koji Ishizaka
• Kiichi Nakai
• Atsushi Watanabe
• Fujio Tokita
• Tanie Kitabayashi
• Bunta Sugawara
• Takuzō Kawatani