Nobi 1959

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: The performance of Eiji Funakoshi as the straggler cannot help but make you feel a terrible sense of the human waste and pathos represented in the ruin of this poor man. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: No other film on the horrors of war has gone anywhere near as far as Kon Ichikawa's 1959 Japanese feature. Read more

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Packs a powerful antiwar message. As with Eastwood's Iwo Jima, it dispels the myth that every Japanese soldier had the suicidal desire to die for his country. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: This downbeat but fervent pic goes much further than the accepted war masterpieces in detailing humanity in crisis, and the spark left in one man. Production one of the most searing comments on war yet made. Read more