PickFlick
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

The Immortal Story.

Part of The Human Condition Collection

1959•3h 27m•8.1/10
WarDramaHistory

Ratings

🎬TMDb
8.1/10(273)

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor 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.

Open in PickFlick

Production

Ninjin Club

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Tatsuya Nakadai

Tatsuya Nakadai

Kaji

Michiyo Aratama

Michiyo Aratama

Michiko

Chikage Awashima

Chikage Awashima

Tôfuku Kin

Ineko Arima

Ineko Arima

Shunran Yô

So Yamamura

So Yamamura

Okishima

Akira Ishihama

Akira Ishihama

Chin

Kōji Nanbara

Kōji Nanbara

Kô

Seiji Miyaguchi

Seiji Miyaguchi

Kyôritsu Ô

Tōru Abe

Tōru Abe

Watarai Gunsô

Masao Mishima

Masao Mishima

Kuroki Shochô

Eitarō Ozawa

Eitarō Ozawa

Okazaki

Kōji Mitsui

Kōji Mitsui

Furuya

Akitake Kōno

Kôno Taii

Nobuo Nakamura

Nobuo Nakamura

Honsha Buchô

Kyū Sazanka

Kyū Sazanka

Meisan Chô

Eijirō Tōno

Eijirō Tōno

Shinsuke Ashida

Shinsuke Ashida

(uncredited)

Keiji Sada

Keiji Sada

Kageyama

Yasushi Nagata

(uncredited)

Yoshio Kosugi

Yoshio Kosugi

(uncredited)

Recommended

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

8.2
1959
Movie

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

1959
8.2
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

8.4
1961
Movie

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

1961
8.4
I Am Curious (Yellow)

I Am Curious (Yellow)

5.7
1967
Movie

Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.

I Am Curious (Yellow)

1967
5.7
Sword of Sherwood Forest

Sword of Sherwood Forest

6.0
1960
Movie

Robin of Loxley and his men stumble on a plot to overthrow Hubert Walter, King's Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury. The plotters, the Sheriff of Nottingham and the Earl of Newark, have set an ambush for Walter and Lady Marian Fitzwater. Will Robin get to them before it is too late?

Sword of Sherwood Forest

1960
6.0
Yo-kai Watch: The Movie - The Great Adventure of the Flying Whale & the Double World, Meow!

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie - The Great Adventure of the Flying Whale & the Double World, Meow!

7.2
2016
Movie

A giant whale appears and flies above Sakura New Town. With the whale’s sound of crying, some changes occur to Kenta Amano and Yokai.

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie - The Great Adventure of the Flying Whale & the Double World, Meow!

2016
7.2
Dui Diner Duniya

Dui Diner Duniya

7.0
2022
Movie

Truck Driver Samad meets a strange and mysterious character named Jamshed who claims to be from the future. As the story unfolds, Samad becomes more confused whether this man is a fortune-teller or some sort of spiritual person or just a fraud. Thus Samad starts a two days long journey with this mystery-man and through that journey, Samad gradually loses grip of his reality and existance.

Dui Diner Duniya

2022
7.0
The Broadway Melody

The Broadway Melody

5.2
1929
Movie

The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.

The Broadway Melody

1929
5.2
The Great War of Archimedes

The Great War of Archimedes

6.5
2019
Movie

It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the world's biggest and most formidable battleship, Yamato. One of the admirals, Yamamoto Isoroku, disagrees. He recruits the upstart and mathematics' expert Tadashi Kai who discovers there are discrepancies between the official cost estimates and the actual figures. They soon find out that they have stumbled upon a conspiracy.

The Great War of Archimedes

2019
6.5
The Cranes Are Flying

The Cranes Are Flying

7.9
1957
Movie

Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.

The Cranes Are Flying

1957
7.9
Sanshiro Sugata

Sanshiro Sugata

6.5
1943
Movie

A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujutsu bravado for discipline and humility. As Sanshirō matures, he proves judo’s spirit against old-guard challengers—including a deadly duel—while falling for his vanquished opponent’s daughter. Based on the novel by Tsuneo Tomita, son of Tomita Tsunejirō, the earliest disciple of judo.

Sanshiro Sugata

1943
6.5
The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch

6.8
1978
Movie

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.

The Medusa Touch

1978
6.8
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

7.2
1954
Movie

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

1954
7.2

Similar Movies

Neporažení

Neporažení

7.0
1956
Movie

As Nazi troops prepare to occupy the already truncated Czechoslovak Republic, a small military garrison made up of communists defies orders to abandon their post.

Neporažení

1956
7.0
Anatomy of a Murder

Anatomy of a Murder

7.8
1959
Movie

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.

Anatomy of a Murder

1959
7.8
All About My Mother

All About My Mother

7.6
1999
Movie

Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.

All About My Mother

1999
7.6
Three Colors: Blue

Three Colors: Blue

7.6
1993
Movie

The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.

Three Colors: Blue

1993
7.6
Three Colors: Red

Three Colors: Red

7.9
1994
Movie

Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At first, the grumpy man shows no concern about the dog, and Valentine decides to keep it. But the two form a bond when she returns to his house and catches him listening to his neighbors’ phone calls.

Three Colors: Red

1994
7.9
Scarface

Scarface

8.2
1983
Movie

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

Scarface

1983
8.2
Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane

8.0
1941
Movie

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Citizen Kane

1941
8.0
Operation Cross Eagles

Operation Cross Eagles

5.2
1968
Movie

In Yugoslavia during WWII, a small band of courageous commandoes are sent to kidnap an important German commander in exchange for an American general being held in a German fortress.

Operation Cross Eagles

1968
5.2
Amores Perros

Amores Perros

7.6
2000
Movie

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.

Amores Perros

2000
7.6
The Astronaut Lovers

The Astronaut Lovers

8.2
2024
Movie

Pedro travels from Spain to Argentina for a vacation at his uncle's home, where he meets Maxi again, a childhood friend. Maxi is surprised when he finds out Pedro is gay. When Maxi finds his ex-girlfriend is also there, he asks Pedro to pretend to be his boyfriend to win her back. Pedro accepts the game, unaware of the dangers of playing with love.

The Astronaut Lovers

2024
8.2
Lady Samurai

Lady Samurai

2019
Movie

This is the story of Kaori Kawabuchi, a samurai sword performer, singer and motion capture actor. An inspiring woman keeping alive ancient traditions and spirituality in modern Japan.

Lady Samurai

2019
American History X

American History X

8.3
1998
Movie

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.

American History X

1998
8.3