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Challenge to Live

Challenge to Live

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 17, 1961

Runtime

1h 38m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

愛と炎と

Production Companies

TOHO

Director

Eizō Sugawa

Description

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).