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Five Scouts
Directed by	Tomotaka Tasaka
Written by	Yoshio Aramaki
Starring	Hikaru Hoshi Ichirō Izawa
Cinematography	Saburo Isayama
Distributed by	Nikkatsu
Release date	7 January 1938 (1938-01-07)
Running time	73 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Five Scouts (五人の斥候兵, Gonin no sekkōhei) is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by Tomotaka Tasaka. It won best film at the 1939 Kinema Junpo Awards and was nominated best film at the 1938 Venice International Film Festival.

Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film

Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film
1927–1940	Ashi ni sawatta onna (1927) A Diary of Chuji's Travels (1928) Jobless Samurai (1929) Beheading Place (1930) What Made Her Do It? (1931) The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (1932) I Was Born, But... (1933) Passing Fancy (1934) A Story of Floating Weeds (1935) Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1936) Sisters of the Gion (1937) Limitless Advance (1938) Five Scouts (1939) Earth (1940)
1941–1960	Kojima no haru (1941) The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1942) The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malay (1943) Morning for the Osone Family (1947) A Ball at the Anjo House (1948) Drunken Angel (1949) Late Spring (1950) Until We Meet Again (1951) Early Summer (1952) Ikiru (1953) An Inlet of Muddy Water (1954) Twenty-Four Eyes (1955) Floating Clouds (1956) Darkness at Noon (1957) The Rice People (1958) The Ballad of Narayama (1959) Kiku to Isamu (1960)
1961–1980	Her Brother (1961) Bad Boys (1962) Being Two Isn't Easy (1963) The Insect Woman (1964) Woman in the Dunes (1965) Red Beard (1966) The Great White Tower (1967) Samurai Rebellion (1968) The Profound Desire of the Gods (1969) Double Suicide (1970) Where Spring Comes Late (1971) The Ceremony (1972) The Long Darkness (1973) Tsugaru Folk Song (1974) Sandakan No. 8 (1975) Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1976) The Youth Killer (1977) The Yellow Handkerchief (1978) Third Base (1979) Vengeance Is Mine (1980)
1981–2000	Zigeunerweisen (1981) Muddy River (1982) Fall Guy (1983) The Family Game (1984) The Funeral (1985) And Then (1986) The Sea and Poison (1987) A Taxing Woman (1988) My Neighbor Totoro (1989) Black Rain (1990) The Cherry Orchard (1991) My Sons (1992) Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1993) All Under the Moon (1994) A Dedicated Life (1995) A Last Note (1996) Shall We Dance? (1997) The Eel (1998) Fireworks (1998) Wait and See (2000)
2001–present	Face (2001) Go (2002) The Twilight Samurai (2003) A Boy's Summer in 1945 (2004) Nobody Knows (2005) Break Through! (2006) Hula Girls (2007) I Just Didn't Do It (2008) Departures (2009) Dear Doctor (2010) Villain (2011) Postcard (2012) Our Homeland (2013) Pecoross' Mother and Her Days (2014) The Light Shines Only There (2015) Three Stories of Love (2016) In This Corner of the World (2017) The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (2018) Shoplifters (2019) It Feels So Good (2020) Wife of a Spy (2021) Drive My Car (2022) Small, Slow But Steady (2023) Okiku and the World (2024)

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