The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
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The Immortal Story.
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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
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Tatsuya NakadaiKaji
Michiyo AratamaMichiko
Chikage AwashimaTôfuku Kin
Ineko ArimaShunran Yô
So YamamuraOkishima
Akira IshihamaChin
Kōji Nanbara
Seiji MiyaguchiKyôritsu Ô
Tōru AbeWatarai Gunsô
Masao MishimaKuroki Shochô
Eitarō OzawaOkazaki
Kōji MitsuiFuruyaExplore the crew
- Director
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Screenplay
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Producer
- Shigeru Wakatsuki
- Editor
- Keiichi Uraoka
- Screenplay
- Zenzō Matsuyama
- Director of Photography
- Yoshio Miyajima
- Original Music Composer
- Chūji Kinoshita