Movie
1959 War drama
3h 28min
| Original title | Ningen no jôken |
| Original lang. | Japanese, Mandarin |
| Country | Japan |
G
The first film, No Greater Love (1959) opens with Kaji marrying his sweetheart Michiko despite his misgivings about the future. The couple then move to a large mining operation in Japanese-colonized Manchuria where Kaji is a labor supervisor assigned to a workforce of Chinese prisoners. He tries and ultimately fails to reconcile his humanistic theories with the brutal reality of forced labor in an imperial system.
| Directed by | Masaki Kobayashi |
| Written by | Zenzo Matsuyama, Masaki Kobayashi |
Starring
Tatsuya Nakadai
Michiyo Aratama
Chikage Awashima
Ineko Arima
Keiji Sada
Sô Yamamura
Akira Ishihama
Kôji Nanbara
Seiji Miyaguchi
Tôru Abe
Masao Mishima
Eitarô Ozawa
Kôji Mitsui
Akitake Kôno
Nobuo Nakamura
Kyû Sazanka
Eijirô Tôno
Yasushi Nagata
Yoshio Kosugi
Shinsuke Ashida
Toshiko Kobayashi
Taiji Tonoyama
Ryûji Kita
Akira Tani
Junji Masuda
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