In Manchuria during WW2, newspaper reporter Okubo (Makoto Sato) arrives at a beleaguered frontline garrison nicknamed Desperate Outpost and immediately takes an interest in the double suicide of a captain and his lover who supposedly killed themselves on the eve of battle. However when an old flame of Okubo’s named Tomie (Izumi Yukimura) inadvertently gives away his true motives to … Read the rest