Story about Oba: The Last Samurai / 太平洋の奇跡-フォックスと呼ばれた男 / 太平洋的奇迹:外号狐狸的男子
During the end of World War 2, a group of Japanese soldier fight on after US forces capture most of ...
During the end of World War 2, a group of Japanese soldier fight on after US forces capture most of the island. They refuse to surrender and continue to resist after the Emperor surrender.
July 1944, The Imperial Japanese Army Garrison on Saipan mounted its final suicidal Banzai charge againt the American Marines in the Battle for Saipan. Out of the 4000 Japanese who waged the charge there are almost no survivor but among them left alive is Captain Oba Sakae (Yutaka Takenouchi). Playing dead, he initially avoids capture and then is joined by a small band of survivor who retreat deep into the jungle. There, he as the highest ranking officer still alive will take command of the surviving 46 soldier and 200 plus Japanese civilian now in his care who will evade the Marines and conduct a hit and run Guerrilla War long after the American declare the island secured in American hands. Enraged by Oba's resistance, the temperamental USMC Commander Colonel Pollard (Daniel Baldwin) launches an all out effort to hunt the man the Marines have dubbed "The Fox" of the Pacific. Failing to Capture Oba, Pollard is sacked and replaced by the mild mannered Colonel Wessinger