The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

The Immortal Story.

A morally rigorous, deeply melancholic examination of one man's principled resistance to fascism and exploitation, set against the machinery of wartime oppression.

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts and moves with his newlywed 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.