The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbearing father who held the whip-hand over his gentle mother. Out of defiance of his step-father he became wayward. But he was bright and his teacher persuaded him to enter the Academy as he knew that if he left home, his mother need not feel apologetic towards her husband on his account.
Discipline was strict, their studies were hard and, in between, all the new cadets received an ample share of beatings, at the hands of the senior cadets, for the slightest mistakes. Murase thought all picked on him the most, especially Cadet First Class Kogure, who manhandled him at the slightest excuse.
小林勝彦
as Ryutaro Ishikawa
南部彰三
as Sakutaro Ishikawa
本郷功次郎
as
Keiji Noguchi
as
Ryuichi Ishii
as
仁木多鶴子
as
菅原謙次
as
北原義郎
as
根上淳
as
滝沢修
as
Taro Momoyama
as
矢島ひろ子
as
