It excellently depicted the massacre by the Japanese army during the war and the adversity of the intellectual soldier resisting it, and defeat, escape and death, and it received a Mainichi Art Prize, Mainichi Film Awards best director award and Venice International Film Festival Prix de Saint-Georges.
戦時中の日本軍の暴虐と、それに反抗したインテリ兵の逆境と敗戦、逃亡、死を見事に描ききり、毎日芸術賞、毎日映画コンクール監督賞、ベネチア国際映画祭サン・ジョルジュ賞を受賞する。