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Challenge to Live

Directed by Eizō Sugawa

Starring Tatsuya Mihashi, Yōko Tsukasa

An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during the Pacific War. Matters are complicated further when he falls in love with the soldier's younger sister (Tsukasa).