Never Give Up (Japanese: 野性の証明, Hepburn: Yasei no shōmei) is a 1978 Japanese thriller film, based on a novel by Seiichi Morimura. It was directed by Junya Sato and produced by Haruki Kadokawa. Toei Company released the film on October 7, 1978, in Japan.
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Plot
A girl survives a massacre of villagers by Japanese soldiers in a remote mountain village.
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