The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Ningen no jôken) (1959)

8.8	Listal rating
8.1	IMDB rating

Directed by

Masaki Kobayashi

Starring (View all)

Kaji

Michiko

Tôfuku Kin

Shunran Yô

Kageyama

Okishima

Chin

Kô

Written by (View all)

Zenzo Matsuyama

Masaki Kobayashi

(screenplay)

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1 year, 9 months ago at Aug 8 22:37

madstalk

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This is an amazing beginning to Kobayashi's trilogy. It follows humanist Kaji's assignment to a Japanese ore mine staffed mostly with Chinese laborers. The story follows Kaji's trials and tribulations as he is put in charge of the "special laborers" (aka Chinese prisoners of war).

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Description: First of a trilogy of films. During the Second World War, a Japanese conscientious objector named Kaji works as a supervisor in a Manchurian prison camp. He hopes to avoid duty as a soldier, but he also hopes to be helpful to the welfare of his prisoners. An escape attempt by Chinese prisoners results in Kaji's arrest for collusion. H ... (more)

Release date : 14 December 1959
UPC: 014381455021

1950s (7), Japan (7), 1959 (6), War (5), Drama (4), WWII (3), Japanese (3), Chinese (3), Based On Novel (3), China (3), Literature (2), Asia (2), Political Drama (2), Melodrama (2), East Asia (2), Foreign (2), 1950's (1), 50's (1), 50s (1), Trilogy (1)

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