War Drama History
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.
Directed by
Masaki Kobayashi
Tatsuya Nakadai
Kaji
Tōru Abe
Watarai Gunsô
So Yamamura
Okishima
Hōsei Komatsu
Eitarō Ozawa
Okazaki
Seiji Miyaguchi
Kyôritsu Ô
Eijirō Tōno
Kyū Sazanka
Meisan Chô
Masao Mishima
Kuroki Shochô
Taiji Tonoyama
Keiji Sada
Kageyama
Michiyo Aratama
Michiko
Ineko Arima
Shunran Yô
Junkichi Orimoto
(uncredited)
Kōji Nanbara
Nobuo Nakamura
Honsha Buchô
Chikage Awashima
Tôfuku Kin
Shinsuke Ashida
(uncredited)
Kōji Mitsui
Furuya
Akira Ishihama
Chin
Torahiko Hamada
(uncredited)
Toshiko Kobayashi
(uncredited)
Yoshio Kosugi
(uncredited)
Teruko Kishi
(uncredited)
Takamaru Sasaki
(uncredited)
Tokuko Sugiyama
(uncredited)
Akio Isono
(uncredited)
Isao Suenaga
(uncredited)
Jun Ōtomo
(uncredited)
Nobuo Takagi
(uncredited)
Akitake Kōno
Kôno Taii
Yasushi Nagata
(uncredited)
Akira Tani
(uncredited)
Junji Masuda
(uncredited)
Zenichi Inagawa
(uncredited)
Shinichirō Minami
(uncredited)
Sue Mitobe
(uncredited)
Masami Maehata
(uncredited)
Keiji Tsuchida
(uncredited)
Jun Tanizaki
(uncredited)
Hisashi Taki
(uncredited)
Haruko Chichibu
(uncredited)
Tsuneko Sasaki
(uncredited)
Kanji Ōsugi
(uncredited)
Ryuji Kita

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