Never Give Up (1978 film) explained

is a 1978 Japanese film. It was directed by Junya Sato and produced by Haruki Kadokawa.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Plot

A girl survives a massacre of villagers by Japanese soldiers in a remote mountain village.^[4]

Cast

• Ken Takakura as Takeshi Ajisawa
• Hiroko Yakushimaru as Yoriko Nagai
• Ryoko Nakano as Tomoko Ochi
• Rentarō Mikuni
• Hiroshi Tachi as Naruaki Oba
• Fumio Watanabe as Yoshida
• Taiji Tonoyama
• Takahiro Tamura as Takashi Urakawa, pressman
• Kazuo Kitamura as Nagakawa
• Hajime Hana as Muranaga
• Katsumasa Uchida
• Mizuho Suzuki as Kuga
• Hideji Otaki as Nomura
• Isao Natsuyagi as Kitano
• Richard Anderson as Roberts
• Shinsuke Ashida as Sakamoto
• Nobuo Kaneko as Mizoguchi
• Tatsuo Umemiya as Akio Izaki
• Mikio Narita as Tasuke Nakao
• Hiroki Matsukata as Minagawa
• Tetsuro Tamba as Wada

Notes and References

1. Web site: 緊急追悼連載！ 高倉健 「背中の残響」（5）"夏八木抜き"の演出を進言. asagei plus Tokuma Shoten. 2 November 2019.
2. Web site: ４０周年記念映画祭開催！角川映画はいかにして昭和後期の日本映画界を改革していったか？（前編）. シネマプラス. 2 November 2019.
3. Web site: 野性の証明. Kinema Junpo. 27 December 2020.
4. Web site: 『野性の証明』. 週刊文春オンライン. August 14, 2021.