Movie
The Thick-Walled Room
1956 · 110 min
A somber, slow-burning meditation on guilt and responsibility, unfolding largely within prison walls and memories, demanding patience but rewarding with quiet moral force.
- Directed by
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Starring
- Torahiko Hamada, Kō Mishima, Tsutomu Shimomoto
- Overview
- A group of rank-and-file soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.
- How it feels
- Bleak, melancholic, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Guilt, justice, war, betrayal
- Content
- Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Starring
- Torahiko Hamada, Kō Mishima, Tsutomu Shimomoto
