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.
Media
The Human Condition 1: No Greater Love Original Trailer (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959)
Cast
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)
Hisashi Taki
(uncredited)
Haruko Chichibu
(uncredited)
Tsuneko Sasaki
(uncredited)
Kanji Ōsugi
(uncredited)
Ryuji Kita
