The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Ningen no jôken
The Immortal Story.
208 min
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.
- Release date
- January 15, 1959
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Music
- Chûji Kinoshita
Where to watch
Subscription
Criterion Channel
Trailer
Cast
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Kaji
- Michiyo Aratama as Michiko
- Chikage Awashima as Tôfuku Kin
- Ineko Arima as Shunran Yô
- Sō Yamamura as Okishima
- Akira Ishihama as Chin
- Kōji Nanbara as Kô
- Seiji Miyaguchi as Kyôritsu Ô
- Tōru Abe as Watarai Gunsô
- Masao Mishima as Kuroki Shochô
- Eitarō Ozawa as Okazaki
- Kōji Mitsui as Furuya
- Akitake Kôno as Kôno Taii
- Nobuo Nakamura as Honsha Buchô
- Kyū Sazanka as Meisan Chô
- Eijirō Tōno
- Shinsuke Ashida as (uncredited)
- Keiji Sada as Kageyama
- Yasushi Nagata as (uncredited)
- Yoshio Kosugi as (uncredited)
- Toshiko Kobayashi as (uncredited)
- Taiji Tonoyama
- Akira Tani as (uncredited)
- Junji Masuda as (uncredited)
- Torahiko Hamada as (uncredited)
- Teruko Kishi as (uncredited)
- Takamaru Sasaki as (uncredited)
- Akio Isono as (uncredited)
- Jun Ôtomo as (uncredited)
- Junkichi Orimoto as (uncredited)
Crew
- Masaki Kobayashi · Director
- Zenzō Matsuyama · Writer
- Masaki Kobayashi · Writer
- Jumpei Gomikawa · Writer
- Shigeru Wakatsuki · Producer
- Chûji Kinoshita · Composer
- Yoshio Miyajima · Cinematographer
- Keiichi Uraoka · Editor