Sama soruja

original title:
Sama soruja
other titles:
Summer Soldiers, (Sommersoldaten)
country / year of production:
Japan / 1972
original length:
107 min. , color
premiere:
USA: 1 October 1972, New York Film Festival
genre:
melodrama
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director:
Hiroshi Teshigahara , John Nathan
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cast (role):
Kazuo Kitamura , Keith Sykes , Reisen Lee
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plot synopsis:
This film deals with American deserters in Japan during the Vietnam War. Most of them fleed to Tokyo and didn't want to return.
keywords:
dersertion , collaboration , battle-fatigue , behind enemy lines , single fighter , insubordination
war:
Vietnam War (1946-1975)
literature:
Ulrich Bröckling (Hg.). Armeen und ihre Deserteure. Vernachlässigte Kapitel einer Militärgeschichte der Neuzeit. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998.

Jack Todd. Desertion. In the time of Vietnam. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
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