One of the best anti-war films ever

I personally think this happens to be one of the best examples of the anti-war film genre ever.
Or maybe even the best.
In this film no one is portrayed as a hero in the John Wayne style.
What you see instead are a group of desperate,ragged,starving men preoccupied
with simply surviving.
So desperate they become that one of them even resorts to cannibalism in order
to satisfy his hunger.

It's a stark portrayal of a rather grim situation where their biggest foe is not the enemy their fighting against but the spectre of starvation/malnutrition.
This is a better anti-war film than the "Burmese Harp" which I think was also produced by the same director KOn Ichikawa.


Are you in the future vividly remembering this present moment?

H.L.