I said in my review of the first movie, No Greater Love, that maybe Kaji would've been better off in the military. After finishing Road to Eternity I can say that I'm rethinking that stance.

After the events of the first movie we're introduced immediately to Kaji as a recruit in the Japanese army and it certainly isn't pretty. The superior officers beat, humiliate and verbally abuse the recruits if they don't live up to the extremely high standards they set.

The content is very different to the first movie, but the themes are similar. Once again we follow Kaji attempting to overcome severe adversity by trying to introduce some much needed humanity into a brutal and uncaring environment. Just…

Bleakness and depravity returning for another round, this time 178 minutes in length, this is the shortest film in the trilogy. Humanity dragged further through the mud, loss of self, stark unadorned landscapes, empty shells of men who lost everything, even themselves, because of a war they didn't want to be a part of. It's all here, hell of a party. The massive field fire scene and subsequent chase was my favorite sequence in the film, incredibly shot and incredibly tense. Even though you know (or assume) that he will not die when there's a third film, the ending has an atmosphere that had me questioning whether the next one might be a prequel, an amazingly well put together film.…

I said in my review of the first movie, No Greater Love, that maybe Kaji would've been better off in the military. After finishing Road to Eternity I can say that I'm rethinking that stance.

After the events of the first movie we're introduced immediately to Kaji as a recruit in the Japanese army and it certainly isn't pretty. The superior officers beat, humiliate and verbally abuse the recruits if they don't live up to the extremely high standards they set.

The content is very different to the first movie, but the themes are similar. Once again we follow Kaji attempting to overcome severe adversity by trying to introduce some much needed humanity into a brutal and uncaring environment. Just…

Bleakness and depravity returning for another round, this time 178 minutes in length, this is the shortest film in the trilogy. Humanity dragged further through the mud, loss of self, stark unadorned landscapes, empty shells of men who lost everything, even themselves, because of a war they didn't want to be a part of. It's all here, hell of a party. The massive field fire scene and subsequent chase was my favorite sequence in the film, incredibly shot and incredibly tense. Even though you know (or assume) that he will not die when there's a third film, the ending has an atmosphere that had me questioning whether the next one might be a prequel, an amazingly well put together film.…