Shintaro Katsu
is a Japanese film directed by Yasuzo Masumura. "The Hoodlum Soldier" was the first of a series of nine films that followed two soldiers, Kisaburo Omiya (Shintaro Katsu), a former yakuza who has become a soldier, and Arita (Takahiro Tamura), an intellectual from a good family who has deliberately failed the officer examination.