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Director
  
Initial DVD release
  
May 13, 2008

Duration
  

Country
  
United StatesJapan

6.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, War

Music director
  
Language
  
EnglishJapanese

None but the Brave movie poster

Writer
  
,
Katsuya Susaki

Release date
  
1965

Cast
  
Tatsuya Mihashi
(Lt. Kuroki),
Takeshi Katô
(Sgt. Tamura (as Takeshi Kato)),
Homare Suguro
(Lance Cpl. Hirano), (Cpl. Fujimoto),
Masahiko Tanimura
(Lead Pvt. Ando),
Tôru Ibuki
(Pvt. Arikawa (as Toru Ibuki))

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,
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Tagline
  
The brave are never different - only different looking!

None but the brave the truce is ended 1965


None but the Brave, also known as Yūsha nomi (勇者のみ, None but the brave men) in Japan, is a 1965 war film with Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tommy Sands and Brad Dexter. This is the only film directed by Frank Sinatra, and the first Japanese-American co-production, produced by Sinatra for Warner Bros. and Kikumaru Okuda for Toho Studios.

Contents

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None but the brave lt kuroki s journal


Plot

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Narrated in English by a Japanese officer named Kuroki (in the form of a journal he is writing for his wife), a platoon of Japanese soldiers is stranded on an island in the Pacific with no means of communicating with the outside world. Lieutenant Kuroki (Tatsuya Mihashi) keeps his men firmly in hand and is supervising the building of a boat for their escape.

An American C-47/R4D transport plane is shot down by a Japanese Zero, which in turn is shot down by an American F4U Corsair, on the same island with a platoon of U.S. marines led by Captain Dennis Bourke (Clint Walker), Sergeant Bleeker (Brad Dexter) and 2nd Lieutenant Blair (Tommy Sands). Confidante to Bourke is the chief pharmacist's mate (Frank Sinatra). As both sides learn of each other's existence on the island, tension mounts resulting in a battle for the Japanese boat. The vessel is destroyed and a Japanese soldier is seriously injured. Calling a truce, Koruki trades the Americans access to water in exchange for a visit from their doctor to treat the wounded soldier, whose leg has to be amputated.

The truce results in both platoons living side by side, although a line is drawn forbidding one from encroaching on the other's side of the island. At first, there is some clandestine cooperation and trading and earnest respect and friendship. When the Americans establish radio contact and their pickup by a US naval vessel is arranged they demand that the Japanese surrender. As the Americans proceed to the beach, the American captain orders his men to shoot to kill. They are ambushed by the Japanese platoon. The Americans are given no option but to retaliate in self-defense that results in an ensuing bloody and pointless firefight during which all the Japanese (including Kuroki) and most of the Americans are shot dead. The medic, Bourke, Bleeker, Blair and Corporal Ruffino (Richard Bakalyan) are the only survivors of the skirmish. They move onto the beach and wait to be rescued by the American naval vessel, stationed just offshore. Kuroki's final narration calls what he is to do "just another day." The film ends with a long shot of the island, superimposed with the words "Nobody ever wins".

Cast

Japanese:

  • Tatsuya Mihashi as Lt. Kuroki
  • |Takeshi Katô as Sgt. Tamura
  • Homare Suguro as L/Cpl. Hirano
  • Kenji Sahara as Cpl. Fujimoto
  • Mashahiko Tanimura as Lead Pvt. Ando
  • Toru Ibuki as Pvt. Arikawa
  • Ryucho Shunputei as Pvt. Okunda (the fisherman)
  • Hisao Dazai as Pvt. Tokumaru
  • Susumu Kurobe as Pvt. Goro (as Susume Kurobe)
  • Takashi Inagaki as Pvt. Ishi
  • Kenichi Hata as Pvt. Sato
  • American:

  • Frank Sinatra as Chief Pharmacist Mate
  • Clint Walker as Capt. Dennis Bourke
  • Tommy Sands as 2nd Lt. Blair
  • Brad Dexter as Sgt. Bleeker
  • Tony Bill as Air Crewman Keller
  • Sammy Jackson as Cpl. Craddock
  • Richard Bakalyan as Cpl. Ruffino
  • Jimmy Griffin as Pvt. Dexter
  • Christopher Dark as Pvt. Searcy
  • Don Dorrell as Pvt. Hoxie
  • Phillip Crosby as Pvt. Magee (as Phil Crosby)
  • Howie Young as Pvt. Waller
  • Roger Ewing as Pvt. Swensholm
  • Richard Sinatra as Pvt. Roth
  • Rafer Johnson as Pvt. Johnson
  • Critical response

    Upon release, The New York TimesBosley Crowther ignored the film's anti-war overtones and gave the production a largely negative review, writing, "A minimum show of creative invention and a maximum use of cinema clichés are evident in the staging of this war film," and "Mr. Sinatra, as producer and director, as well as actor of the secondary role of the booze-guzzling medical corpsman, displays distinction only in the latter job. Being his own director, he has no trouble stealing scenes, especially the one in which he burbles boozy wisecracks while preparing to saw off the shivering Japanese's leg. Mr. Sinatra is crashingly casual when it comes to keeping the Japanese in their place." Crowther also noted "Clint Walker … Tommy Sands … Brad Dexter … and Tony Bill … make over-acting—phony acting—the trademark of the film. What with incredible color and the incredible screenplay of Katsuya Susaki and John Twist, this adds up to quite a fake concoction."

    Current critic Robert Horton (of Washington’s The Herald) calls None but the Brave "a 1965 anti-war picture that turns out to be much more interesting and compelling than its reputation would suggest," that "predates the rash of anti-war counterculture movies by a few years," also noting that it "bears the influence of Bridge on the River Kwai with a little Mister Roberts thrown in, but it has a bitterness about war that goes all the way through to the forceful final title, a reflection of Sinatra's liberal views at the time.” Horton points out that Clint Eastwood received a lot of credit for making two films that showed World War II from the American and the Japanese sides (Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima), but that "in a way, Sinatra had already done it, and in one movie."

    Comic book adaption

  • Dell Movie Classic: None but the Brave (April-June 1965)
  • Clint walker in none but the brave


    References

    None but the Brave Wikipedia
    None but the Brave IMDb None but the Brave themoviedb.org


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