The Battle

The story

In 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer allows his wife to be seduced by a British naval attaché in order to gain access to a secret report he has written, unaware her marital unhappiness has made her vulnerable to falling in love with him. Adapted from a novel by Claude Farrère, and also filmed in a French-language version, LA BATAILLE., q.v.

• #japanese nationalist
• #romantic triangle
• #based on novel or book
• #hara-kiri
• #imperial japanese navy
• #husband wife relationship
• #seduction
• #japan
• #secret report
• #tragedy
• #british military observer