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
00:08:55 Any objections to being sent off into the hinterlands?
00:17:28 I know this is nothing new, sir.
00:23:28 You squeeze as much profit out of them as you can.
00:30:03 Kaji!
00:39:01 Kaji! Here!
00:46:35 Why need they escape?
00:53:20 Okazaki may be a brute. But only with this brutality.
01:00:18 What happens... with 600 men and only 30 women?
01:07:24 The Japanese sneak out our rationed flour...
01:17:19 Why not use your room?
01:24:40 We can marry! After the war is over.
01:31:44 How about it? Do you want me to intimidate them?
01:38:10 Admit that you'd let them escape... if you could!
01:44:43 I mean it!
01:50:14 I'd have to check each night to see if they're on duty.
01:59:37 We can't meet for the time being.
02:09:33 that a young squirt like you could never handle this mine.
02:18:52 With this downpour, I couldn't see a thing.
02:31:16 We lack the accommodations.
02:37:37 Hello... I can't hear you! Speak louder!
02:45:49 They'll kill you for sure!
03:03:35 I neither pick pockets nor steal. What shall I confess?
03:14:52 Far better to have trusted the harlots than the directors of this company.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,825
Dialogue density8.9 lines / min
First line00:00:03
Final line03:14:52
Production Record
DirectorMasaki Kobayashi
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes10,037