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.

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  Masaki Kobayashi
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  Koichi Inagaki
• 
  Yûgorô Imai

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  Tatsuya Nakadai
  Kaji
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  Michiyo Aratama
  Michiko
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  Chikage Awashima
  Tôfuku Kin
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  Ineko Arima
  Shunran Yô
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  So Yamamura
  Okishima
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  Akira Ishihama
  Chin
• 
  Kōji Nanbara
  Kô
• 
  Seiji Miyaguchi
  Kyôritsu Ô
• 
  Tōru Abe
  Watarai Gunsô
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  Masao Mishima
  Kuroki Shochô
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  Eitarō Ozawa
  Okazaki
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  Kōji Mitsui
  Furuya
• 
  Akitake Kōno
  Kôno Taii
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  Nobuo Nakamura
  Honsha Buchô
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  Kyū Sazanka
  Meisan Chô
• 
  Eijirō Tōno
• 
  Shinsuke Ashida
  (uncredited)
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  Keiji Sada
  Kageyama
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  Yasushi Nagata
  (uncredited)
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  Yoshio Kosugi
  (uncredited)