Challenge to Live
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).
Genre: Drama
Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi, Yōko Tsukasa, Yumi Shirakawa, Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Eijirō Tōno, Eitarō Ozawa, Susumu Fujita, Yoshifumi Tajima, Kyôko Kishida, Masayuki Mori
Crew: Shintarō Ishihara (Original Story), Eizō Sugawa (Director), Masaru Satō (Original Music Composer), Kaneto Shindō (Screenplay), Fukuzo Koizumi (Director of Photography)