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.

• Masaki KobayashiDirector
• Masaki KobayashiScreenplay
• Zenzō MatsuyamaScreenplay
• Chūji KinoshitaOriginal Music Composer

• Tatsuya NakadaiKaji
• Michiyo AratamaMichiko
• Chikage AwashimaTôfuku Kin
• Ineko ArimaShunran Yô
• So YamamuraOkishima
• Akira IshihamaChin
• Kōji NanbaraKô
• Seiji MiyaguchiKyôritsu Ô
• Tōru AbeWatarai Gunsô
• Masao MishimaKuroki Shochô
• Eitarō OzawaOkazaki
• Kōji MitsuiFuruya