The Human Condition - Part 1: No Greater Love

Name: The Human Condition - Part 1: No Greater Love
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Released: 1959
Duration: 3 h 28 min
Cast: Keiji Sada, Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kôji Mitsui, Sō Yamamura

人間の條件

by Masaki Kobayashi3h281959Japan

The Human Condition - Part 1: No Greater Love

Recommended byJerry Schatzberg

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A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.

Cast and crew

Credits
- Distributor : Carlotta Films
- Production Compagny : Ninjin Club, Shôchiku Eiga
- Editing : Keiichi Uraoka
- Sound Recorder : Hideo Nishizaki
- Director : Masaki Kobayashi
- Scenario : Masaki Kobayashi
- Producer : Shigeru Wakatsuki, Zenzo Matsuyama
- Original Work Author : Jumpei Gomikawa
- Executive Producer : Tatsuo Osawa, Zempei Moriyama
- Photo Director : Yoshio Miyajima
- Set Decoration : Kazue Hirataka
- Original Music : Chuji Kinoshita
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Sound mix : Stéréo 2.0
- Year of production : 1959
- French release date : 3 novembre 1962
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Black and White
- Language : Japanese

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This film is recommended by
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This film is part of the Cinematographic movement
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See the other films of the movement

The Human Condition - Part 1: No Greater Love

The film"s page

Credits

Technical details

Other films

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The Human Condition - Part 2: Road to Eternity

The Human Condition - Part 3: A Soldier's Prayer

Hara-kiri

From the same year

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Hiroshima, My Love

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With the same cast

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