The Human Condition Part 1: No Greater Love

This is one of the big reasons why I decided to do a Masaki Kobayashi survey. I’d seen the film many moons ago and bought it a couple of years ago, but it’s hard to find time for a ten-hour film. Getting knee deep in director filmographies became the perfect excuse to find the time to revisit it, and so here we are with the first third of a film about the Japanese character during World War II, the degradation of a man, a prominent Japanese pacificist exorcising some demons all at the same t...