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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

Original title: 人間の條件　第３部望郷篇／第４部戦雲篇

The second one

  • Movie
  • 1959
  • 2h 58m

Directed by Masaki Kobayashi

8.2

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8.2 out of 10 from 242 votes

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Kaji, sent to the Japanese army labeled Red, witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against a fellow recruit. He also sees his friend Shinjô defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.

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Cast and crew

  • Tatsuya Nakadai

    Tatsuya NakadaiKaji

  • Michiyo Aratama

    Michiyo AratamaMichiko

  • Kokinji Katsura

    Kokinji KatsuraSasa Nitôhei

  • Jun Tatara

    Jun TataraHino Jun'i

  • Michirō Minami

    Michirō MinamiYoshida Jôtôhei

  • Kei Satō

    Kei SatōShinjô Ittôhei

  • Kunie Tanaka

    Kunie TanakaObara Nitôhei

  • Ryōhei Uchida

    Ryōhei UchidaHashitani Gunsô

  • Kan Yanagiya

    Kan YanagiyaTanoue Nitôhei

  • Kenjiro Uemura

    Kenjiro UemuraBannai Jôtôhei

  • Kaneko Iwasaki

    Kaneko IwasakiTokunaga Kangofu

  • Mayumi Kurata

    Mayumi KurataObara no Tsuma

  • Taketoshi Naitō

    Taketoshi NaitōTange Ittôhei

  • Hideo KidokoroKudô Taii

  • Yoshirō Aoki

    Yoshirō AokiSergeant Soga

  • Rō Ose

    Rō OseKubo Nitôhei

  • Tamotsu TamuraEiseiheichô

  • Toru TakeuchiShûban Shikan

Director
Masaki Kobayashi
Writer
Jumpei Gomikawa, Masaki Kobayashi and Zenzō Matsuyama
Music
Chūji Kinoshita
Cinematography
Yoshio Miyajima