Trailer for The Human Condition I, also titled as No Greater Love.
Masaki Kobayashi's mammoth humanist drama is one of the most staggering achievements of Japanese cinema. Originally filmed and released in three parts, the nine-and-a-half-hour The Human Condition (Ningen no joken), adapted from Junpei Gomikawa's six-volume novel, tells of the journey of the well-intentioned yet naive Kaji (Japanese superstar Tatsuya Nakadai) from labor camp supervisor to Imperial Army soldier to Soviet POW. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and again finds his morals an impediment rather than an advantage. A raw indictment of its nation's wartime mentality as well as a personal existential tragedy, Kobayashi's riveting, gorgeously filmed epic is novelistic cinema at its best.
4 min 35 sec
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8,701
Posted On
October 15, 2010
Masaki Kobayashi
Writer
Masaki Kobayashi
Studio
Image Entertainment
Release
December 14, 1959
Tatsuya Nakadai
Michiyo Aratama
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