The Human Bullet (肉弾, Nikudan) is a 1968 Japanese satiric anti-war film about a soldier who becomes assigned to a suicide mission against the American forces during the late stage of World War II.
[1][2][3] During the last days of the war, a nameless young cadet is assigned to a suicide mission, ordered to blow himself up with an ammunition crate under the expected enemy tanks.
While awaiting the enemy's invasion, he makes the acquaintance of a young orphaned woman, who runs a brothel formerly owned by her parents, and two kid brothers.
Twenty years after the war has ended, his skeletal remains float in an oil drum off the beach, his offscreen voice shouting "rabbit", the nickname he had given the girl.
[a] After negotiations with Toho Studios failed, Okamoto financed The Human Bullet himself,[4] shooting it on 16mm film (to be later released in 35 mm format).