The Human Condition I: No Greater Love(人間の條件 第1部純愛篇/第2部激怒篇)
✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
Japan · 1959
3h 26m
Director Masaki Kobayashi
Starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima, Ineko Arima
Genre Drama, History, War
Add to Watchlist
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
In this first of a trilogy of epic war films based on a of the same name by Junpei Gomikawa, a Japanese pacifist and socialist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.
What are people saying?
Users who liked this film also liked
The Hidden Fortress
(隠し砦の三悪人)
Two peasants agree to escort a couple across enemy lines in exchange for gold, but the couple is harboring a secret.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1958
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Misa Uehara, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura
- Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Journey to Italy
(Viaggio in Italia)
A bored English couple must face the cracks in their marriage on a trip to Italy.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1954
- Director Roberto Rossellini
- Cast Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Jackie Frost, Maria Mauban, Anna Proclemer, Leslie Daniels
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy
The Ladykillers
An oddball group of criminals plan a robbery.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1955
- Director Alexander Mackendrick
- Cast Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Katie Johnson
- Genre Comedy, Crime
- Available on AMC on Demand
Two for the Road
They make something wonderful out of being alive!
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1967
- Director Stanley Donen
- Cast Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney, Georges Descrières, Claude Dauphin, Nadia Gray, Jacqueline Bisset
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Harakiri
(切腹)
The world has never understood why the Japanese prefer death to dishonor. This winner of Prix Special du Jury at Cannes 1963 provides the answer!
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1962
- Director Masaki Kobayashi
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentarou Mikuni, Shima Iwashita, Akira Ishihama, Yoshio Inaba
- Genre Action, Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
A Man Escaped
(Un condamné à mort s'est échappé)
During World War II, a French Resistance fighter tries to escape a Nazi prison before his execution.
- France • 1956
- Director Robert Bresson
- Cast François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod, Jacques Ertaud, Jean Paul Delhumeau
- Genre Drama, Thriller, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
(御用牙 鬼の半蔵やわ肌小判)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1974
- Director Yoshio Inoue
- Cast Shintarō Katsu, Kō Nishimura, Mako Midori, Mikio Narita, Etsushi Takahashi, Daigo Kusano
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
(宮本武蔵)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1954
- Director Hiroshi Inagaki
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Rentaro Mikuni, Mariko Okada, Kurôemon Onoe, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mitsuko Mito
- Genre Drama, Action, Adventure
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
(人間の條件 第3部望郷篇/第4部戦雲篇)
First Sequel of an Anti-War Masterpiece
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1959
- Director Masaki Kobayashi
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Kokinji Katsura, Jun Tatara, Michirô Minami, Kei Satō
- Genre War, Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Cranes Are Flying
(Летят журавли)
The compelling story of a girl's impassioned search for happiness.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Soviet Union • 1957
- Director Mikhail Kalatozov
- Cast Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasili Merkuryev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Svetlana Kharitonova, Konstantin Kadochnikov
- Genre Drama, Romance, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, The Roku Channel
I Am Curious (Yellow)
(Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Sweden • 1967
- Director Vilgot Sjöman
- Cast Lena Nyman, Vilgot Sjöman, Börje Ahlstedt, Peter Lindgren, Chris Wahlström, Magnus Nilsson
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Green Ray
(Le rayon vert)
A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1986
- Director Éric Rohmer
- Cast Marie Rivière, Amira Chemakhi, Sylvie Richez, María Luisa García, Béatrice Romand, Rosette
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
(En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron)
An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy that follows two traveling novelty salesmen.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Sweden, Germany, Norway • 2014
- Director Roy Andersson
- Cast Holger Andersson, Nisse Vestblom, Viktor Gyllenberg, Lotti Törnros, Jonas Gerholm
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, FlixFling, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, VUDU Free, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Sword of Sherwood Forest
All-New Adventures of Robin Hood! The world's most fearless fighter faces his greatest challenge!
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1960
- Director Terence Fisher
- Cast Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, Niall MacGinnis, Richard Pasco, Jack Gwillim, Sarah Branch
- Genre Adventure, History, Action
- Available on Tubi TV
Dangal
(दंगल)
A former wrestler raises a family of international wrestling champions in this inspiring biopic.
- India, United States • 2016
- Director Nitesh Tiwari
- Cast Aamir Khan, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Sakshi Tanwar, Aparshakti Khurana, Zaira Wasim
- Genre Action, Bollywood, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Dui Diner Duniya
(দুই দিনের দুনিয়া)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Bangladesh • 2022
- Director Anam Biswas
- Cast Chanchal Chowdhury, Fazlur Rahman Babu, Tania Brishty, Moushumi Hamid, Tanvin Sweety, Rakib Hossain Evon
- Genre Mystery, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.