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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
“The Immortal Story.”
War, Drama, History · 3h 24m
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts and moves with his newlywed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
Cast
Tatsuya Nakadai
Michiyo Aratama
Chikage Awashima
Ineko Arima
So Yamamura
Akira Ishihama
Kōji Nanbara
Seiji Miyaguchi
Tōru Abe
Masao Mishima
Eitarō Ozawa
Kōji Mitsui
Crew
- Director
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Screenplay
- Masaki Kobayashi, Zenzō Matsuyama
- Novel
- Jumpei Gomikawa
- Director of Photography
- Yoshio Miyajima
- Original Music Composer
- Chūji Kinoshita
- Editor
- Keiichi Uraoka
- Producer
- Shigeru Wakatsuki
Details
- Original title
- 人間の條件 第１部純愛篇／第２部激怒篇
- Release date
- 1959-01-15
- Runtime
- 3h 24m
- Genres
- War, Drama, History
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Mandarin, Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Ninjin Club