Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship of the German POWs with the director of the camp and local residents at the stage of Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture, in Japan.

• Yomiuri Shimbun Company
• Nippan Group Holdings
• Ken Matsudaira
• Bruno Ganz
• Hiroshi Abe
• Jun Kunimura
• Oliver Bootz
• Kostja Ullmann
• Suzuka Ohgo
• Shirō Mifune