The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

Overview

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.

Directed by Masaki Kobayashi

Top cast

Tatsuya Nakadai

Kaji

Michiyo Aratama

Michiko

Chikage Awashima

Tôfuku Kin

Ineko Arima

Shunran Yô

So Yamamura

Okishima

Akira Ishihama

Chin

Kōji Nanbara

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Seiji Miyaguchi

Kyôritsu Ô

Tōru Abe

Watarai Gunsô

Masao Mishima

Kuroki Shochô

Eitarō Ozawa

Okazaki

Kōji Mitsui

Furuya

Akitake Kōno

Kôno Taii

Nobuo Nakamura

Honsha Buchô

Kyū Sazanka

Meisan Chô

Eijirō Tōno

Shinsuke Ashida

(uncredited)

Keiji Sada

Kageyama

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Yasushi Nagata

(uncredited)

Yoshio Kosugi

(uncredited)

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