The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

“The second one”

Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai) is drafted into the Japanese army, where his record marks him as a Red and the barracks treat him accordingly. He watches the older soldiers beat and humiliate the weakest recruits, and he refuses to stay quiet about it. Masaki Kobayashi follows him toward the Russian border, where Kaji keeps trying to be decent in a place that punishes it.