Nobody talks about this one. A farmer gets conscripted into the Russo-Japanese War and sent to the meat grinder at Port Arthur. The film strips away every romance with combat, no heroic last stands, no noble sacrifice mythology, just a person trying to survive when the machinery of empire decides he's expendable. It's a 1-episode gut punch that understands war as bureaucratic cruelty, not spectacle. What makes it stick is that it never asks you to feel inspired about his service. It only asks you to watch what happens to someone ordinary when history decides to use him up.

A farmer is sent off to fight in the Russo-Japanese War and ends up at the siege of Port Arthur. Made by Hakusan Kimura, this brief action film is a patriotic wartime short that follows the man's exploits on the battlefield.