Summer Soldiers (1972)

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara

One of Teshigahara lesser known works, Summer Soldier centers on Jim, a young army deserter, he doesn’t want to fight in the Vietnam campaign, who has shacked up with a Japanese bar hostess. Terrified of being caught, Jim hides every time someone comes to the door. Wanting to help her lover, Reiko attempts to find help through a group led by a mutton-chopped fellow named Pete, Nathan himself, however, the group asks for the deserter to return to base to fight inside the system itself. Jim, desiring to flee instead of fight, refuses to go and instead seeks refuge with a group of Japanese citizens who are protesting the war in Vietnam by harboring deserters.

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This strange, interesting, gentle, and intensely contemporary film (for its time) explores the relationships between the dedicated soldiers and the dropouts during the Vietnam conflict. Cross cultures come into play as well in the picture as Japanese "host families" afford a succession of one-night shelters to GIs who have elected to desert from the US armed forces while on leave in Tokyo. Sykes, whose motive for deserting is no more than exhaustion, is juxtaposed against Antonacci, an antiwar ideolog. The Japanese "Deserters' Aid Committee" members interact with the two, with one another, and with other deserters in interesting, telling, and often amusing ways. Th…

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