Survival (2025)

In the dense, frozen forests of the Soviet-Manchurian border, survival isn’t just a physical struggle—it’s a tactical necessity. Survival chronicles the grueling seven-year odyssey of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces (NAJAF) as they are pushed to the absolute brink. Following the disastrous retreats of 1938, a shattered rearguard regiment refuses to vanish into the snow. This is the story of their transformation: from a fractured group of starving guerrillas into a disciplined, modernized vanguard ready to reclaim their homeland. In a landscape where the temperature kills more men than bullets, these soldiers must endure the “Winter of the Soul” before they can ignite the fire of liberation.