Monument to the Girl's Corps

[Machine Translation] Featuring an all-star cast including Sayuri Yoshinaga, Masako Izumi, Tetsuya Watari, Mitsuo Hamada, Ruriko Ito, and Masako Ota, this painful coming-of-age tragedy depicts the sparkling youth of the Battle of Okinawa and the horrors of war on a grand scale. --The year is 1943. The Pacific War was beginning to see the beginning of the defiance of the U.S. military in various war zones, but the sense of war in Okinawa was not so strong, and Kazuko Yonamine (Sayuri Yoshinaga) of the Okinawa Normal School for Girls was enjoying an athletic meet with her classmates. There, she meets Junichiro Nishizato ( Mitsuo Hamada ), a male member of the Okinawa Normal School. The year is 1944. The war situation worsens due to the U.S. military's overwhelming mass operations, and Okinawa is now a battlefield, and Kazuko, Nishizato, and the others are engaged in building positions. Kazuko, Nishizato, and the others were also engaged in building a camp. They passed each other on their way to the front and began to feel a faint affection for each other. In October, air raids by Grumman aircraft began. In response to the continuous air raids, the military set up an emergency wartime system for the entire island, and female students, including Kazuko, were assigned as temporary nurses, while male students, including Nishizato, were assigned to the Iron-Blooded Imperial Guard to work together with the army. In March 1945, a small graduation ceremony was held for Kazuko and the other students without diplomas or certificates, but in April, the U.S. forces finally succeeded in a bloodless landing... Picture disc specification.

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吉永小百合、和泉雅子、渡哲也、浜田光夫、伊藤るり子、太田雅子らオールスターキャストが出演した、沖縄戦での青春のきらめきと戦争の悲惨さを一大スケールで描く痛恨の青春悲劇。――昭和18年。太平洋戦争は各戦地で米軍の反抗がはじまりつつあったが、沖縄の戦争感は薄く、沖縄師範女子部の与那嶺和子 (吉永小百合)は級友たちと運動会を楽しんでいた。そこで師範男子の西里順一郎 (浜田光夫)と知り合う。昭和19年。米軍の圧倒的な物量作戦によって戦局は悪化、沖縄も戦場としての体制下となり、和子や西里らも陣地構築の作業に従事するように。行進の途中ですれ違う二人は互いにかすかな愛情を感じはじめていた。内地に疎開が決まった学童を引率するため教員である和子の母も輸送船に乗るが、潜水艦に撃沈される。10月には、グラマン機の空襲が始まる。連日続く空襲に、軍は全島に非常戦時体制をしき、和子ら女学生は臨時看護婦として、西里ら男子学生は鉄血勤皇隊となって陸軍と行動を共にすることになった。昭和20年3月、和子たちのために証書も賞状もない小さな卒業式が開かれたが、4月、ついに米軍が無血上陸に成功する・・・。ピクチャーディスク仕様。