The Human Condition I: No Greater Love(人間の條件 第1部純愛篇/第2部激怒篇)
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Japan · 1959
3h 26m
Director Masaki Kobayashi
Starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima, Ineko Arima
Genre Drama, History, War
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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.
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