YMMV / The Human Condition

• Complete Monster: A Soldier's Prayer: Kirihara Gôchô stands out even in this bleak story as a wholly despicable human being. A deserter from the Japanese military who joins Kaji's group, Kirihara quickly establishes himself as a vile creep by claiming he will help a teenage refugee girl and her younger brother get home to their parents; Kirihara instead leads a gang-rape of the girl then murders both siblings. Thrown out of the group by Kaji for this atrocity, Kirihara is scooped up by the Soviet army soon after, where he manipulates himself into becoming a labor camp overseer of his fellow Japanese. Gleefully abusing his position to brutalize those under his thumb, Kirihara is eager to make a newly-imprisoned Kaji utterly miserable, and so orchestrates events for Kaji and his dozens of allies to be shipped off to certain death in hard labor in Siberia. To finalize his spiteful hatred of Kaji, Kirihara beats and overworks Kaji's best friend to death, cementing himself as the villain to finally destroy Kaji's last semblance of pacifism and desire for peace.

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