The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

The first feature of director Masaki Kobayashi's classic trilogy of war films.

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labour, Kaji is offered the post of laboor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed 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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