The Human Condition 1: No Greater Love Original Trailer (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959)
Trailer
The Human Condition is a Japanese film epic released as a trilogy between 1959 and 1961. The trilogy follows the life of Kaji, a Japanese pacifist and socialist, as he tries to survive in the totalitarian and oppressive world of World War II-era Japan. Taken altogether as a single film, it is 9 hours and 47 minutes long, which includes intermissions, making it one of the longest narrative films ever made. While the films earned considerable controversy at the time of their release in Japan, The Human Condition was critically acclaimed, won many international awards, and has since established Masaki Kobayashi as one of the most important Japanese directors of his generation.
3 films
Masaki Kobayashi (Director) · Zenzō Matsuyama (Screenplay)
Tatsuya Nakadai
Kaji
Michiyo Aratama
Michiko
Chikage Awashima
Tôfuku Kin
Ineko Arima
Shunran Yô
So Yamamura
Okishima
Akira Ishihama
Chin
Kōji Nanbara
Kô
Seiji Miyaguchi
Kyôritsu Ô
Tōru Abe
Watarai Gunsô
Masao Mishima
Kuroki Shochô
Eitarō Ozawa
Okazaki
Kōji Mitsui
Furuya
Akitake Kōno
Kôno Taii
Nobuo Nakamura
Honsha Buchô
Kyū Sazanka
Meisan Chô
Eijirō Tōno
Shinsuke Ashida
(uncredited)
Keiji Sada
Kageyama
Yasushi Nagata
(uncredited)
Yoshio Kosugi
(uncredited)
Toshiko Kobayashi
(uncredited)
Taiji Tonoyama
Akira Tani
(uncredited)
Junji Masuda
(uncredited)
Torahiko Hamada
(uncredited)
Teruko Kishi
(uncredited)
Takamaru Sasaki
(uncredited)
Akio Isono
(uncredited)
Jun Ōtomo
(uncredited)
Junkichi Orimoto
(uncredited)
Zenichi Inagawa
(uncredited)
Shinichirō Minami
(uncredited)
Hōsei Komatsu
Tokuko Sugiyama
(uncredited)
Sue Mitobe
(uncredited)
Nobuo Takagi
(uncredited)
Masami Maehata
(uncredited)
Keiji Tsuchida
(uncredited)
Isao Suenaga
(uncredited)
Jun Tanizaki
(uncredited)
The Human Condition 1: No Greater Love Original Trailer (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959)
Trailer
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.
