Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to benefit their loved ones back home, they are unprepared for the hardships of war. Through their shared trials and sacrifices, they grow closer as friends, and hope to return together to better days. This movie was released in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII.
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Yuji Oda Koji Matoba Mayu Tsuruta Kenzō Kawarasaki Masako Motai Kenichi Endo Masaki Terasoma Kenji Matsuzaki Kaoru Mizuki Satoru Saito Isao Takeno Eimei Esumi Kou Domon Seiji Kurasaki Toru Kazama Naoto Ogata Toru Nakamura Hisashi Igawa Minori Terada Kaneko Iwasaki Yoshiko Miyazaki Shin'ya Ohwada Renji Ishibashi Shizuka Ochi Kei Ishibashi Yasuo Noyori Kazuko Imai Daisuke Iijima Ren Osugi Kazunaga Tsuji Takahiro Tamura Kei Satō Tomomi Satô Etsushi Takahashi Eiji Okuda
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