The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

You enlist in a wartime unit where cruelty feels like training until you refuse to strike a comrade and instead march toward certain death at Russian lines. An era drenched in mandatory heroism lets no deviation go unpunished. The film lingers on faces that will never see another dawn.

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Masaki Kobayashi directed The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity in 1959. See Masaki Kobayashi's full filmography, where to start with Masaki Kobayashi, or where to go after you've seen everything by Masaki Kobayashi.

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity was released in 1959 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 178 minutes.