The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

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After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed 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.

Date: 01/15/1959

Rating: 8.1

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima, Ineko Arima, Sō Yamamura, Akira Ishihama, Kôji Nanbara, Seiji Miyaguchi, Tōru Abe, Masao Mishima, Eitarō Ozawa, Kōji Mitsui, Akitake Kōno, Nobuo Nakamura, Kyū Sazanka, Eijirō Tōno, Shinsuke Ashida, Keiji Sada, Yasushi Nagata, Yoshio Kosugi, Toshiko Kobayashi, Taiji Tonoyama, Akira Tani, Junji Masuda, Torahiko Hamada, Teruko Kishi, Takamaru Sasaki, Akio Isono, Jun Ōtomo, Junkichi Orimoto, Zenichi Inagawa, Shinichirō Minami, Hōsei Komatsu, Tokuko Sugiyama, Sue Mitobe, Nobuo Takagi, Masami Maehata, Keiji Tsuchida, Isao Suenaga, Jun Tanizaki, Hisashi Taki, Haruko Chichibu, Tsuneko Sasaki, Kanji Ōsugi, Ryuji Kita

Tatsuya Nakadai