The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959 · 206 MIN · IMDB 8.5 · 10,037 VOTES · DIR. Masaki Kobayashi
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,825 lines
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00:00:03 Filmed in Grand Scope
00:09:04 You've analysed the situation quite well... on paper.
00:17:50 You can't produce unless all conditions are perfect, is that it?
00:24:01 The gentlemen are having a bad day. We'll come back.
00:31:01 Chen... how's your mother?
00:40:12 Yes... just once more!
00:47:41 What do prisoners dream of the most?
00:54:37 Well now... Report it as an accidental death.
01:01:44 Otherwise, I'm nothing but an ordinary housekeeper!
01:09:25 Mr. Kaji.
01:19:57 Watch out!
01:27:35 But I want you to understand one thing.
01:34:03 What you say... is difficult.
01:40:37 Three days... at most!
01:46:43 I'll never make it.
01:53:50 Take him!
02:03:02 Then... I'd ask more questions.
02:13:51 That's a shapely rump!
02:26:18 Why didn't Chen come to me?
02:35:01 Keep quiet!
02:42:12 Hello? Hello?
02:54:35 Stop this massacre of our comrades!
03:10:54 I see.
10:00:00 aside from your prisoners.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,825
Dialogue density8.9 lines / min
First line00:00:03
Final line10:00:00
Production Record
DirectorMasaki Kobayashi
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes10,037