The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

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.

8.116

204 min

Cast

Tatsuya Nakadai

as Kaji

Michiyo Aratama

as Michiko

Chikage Awashima

as Tôfuku Kin

Ineko Arima

as Shunran Yô

So 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 Kōno

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 Ōtomo

as (uncredited)

Junkichi Orimoto

as (uncredited)

Zenichi Inagawa

as (uncredited)

Shinichirō Minami

as (uncredited)

Hōsei Komatsu

Tokuko Sugiyama

as (uncredited)

Sue Mitobe

as (uncredited)

Nobuo Takagi

as (uncredited)

Masami Maehata

as (uncredited)

Keiji Tsuchida

as (uncredited)

Isao Suenaga

as (uncredited)

Jun Tanizaki

as (uncredited)

Hisashi Taki

as (uncredited)

Haruko Chichibu

as (uncredited)

Tsuneko Sasaki

as (uncredited)

Kanji Ōsugi

as (uncredited)

Ryuji Kita

Director

Masaki Kobayashi