Kirato Saw Honorable Death With No Surrender ~ Mizuki Shigeru's War

A young Shigeru Mizuki, not yet the manga legend, is thrust into the brutal front lines of World War II in New Guinea. His mind, once filled with sketches of future yokai, is now confronted with the visceral horrors of combat, starvation, and loss. Through this hellscape, he struggles to cling to his humanity and his unique perspective—the very wellspring for his later creation, GeGeGe no Kitaro. The film traces the fragile line where lived nightmare births the mythology of survival, transforming a soldier's trauma into an artist's foundational memory.