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specifically told each actor how he wanted them to react, and would not rehearse. Ichikawa expressed that the narrator (Tamura) could not be a cannibal because then he would have crossed the ultimate low. Ichikawa consulted with his wife, Natto Wada, and they decided against having him eat human flesh. As a result, Tamura never eats any in the film because his teeth are falling out.
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couple arrive by canoe and run to a hut to retrieve a cache of precious salt hidden under a floorboard. When Tamura enters the hut, the girl begins to scream. Tamura tries to placate them by lowering his rifle, but she continues to scream. He shoots her. The young man escapes in his canoe. Tamura
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Tamura wanders aimlessly. He then runs into a man, who promptly dies in front of him, and he takes the dead man's shoes. Later, he comes across a crazed, exhausted soldier who is consuming his own excrement. He tells Tamura he can eat his body after he is dead. Tamura hastily departs.
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