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Masaki KobayashiScenario:
Masaki KobayashiCamera:
Yoshio MiyajimaMuziek:
Chûji KinoshitaActeurs:
Taketoshi Naitō, Tatsuya Nakadai, 佐藤慶, Michiyo Aratama, Keiji Sada, Shôji Ôki, 田中邦衛, 内田良平, Jun Hamamura, 倉田マユミ, 原泉, Shôji Yasui, Nakajirō Tomita, Masahiko NaruseSamenvattingen(1)
The second installment of Masaki Kobyashi's nine-hour trilogy opens with Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai) being drafted and sent back to Manchuria, this time to undergo basic training for the Kwantung Army. Because of his sympathy for the ill-treated recruits, he's suspected of communist leanings. In fact, he does befriend a communist sympathizer named Shinjo (Kei Sato) who's planning an escape to Russia. After a brief visit from his wife, Michiko (Michiyo Aratama), Kaji is taken along with his unit on a grueling forced march that some soldiers don't survive. One such soldier is Obara (Kunie Tanaka), who prefers suicide to the humiliation of weakness before the troops. When Shinjo finally attempts his escape, he ends up in a swamp, but Kaji comes to his rescue. Kaji himself is injured and must be hospitalized. However, his recuperation is curtailed when the head nurse finds him flirting with all the other nurses and feels that the time has come for his discharge. He's sent to work as an assistant for his old friend Lieutenant Kageyama (Keiji Sada), but, once again, his humane attitude toward the enlisted men provokes the career military officers, with serious consequences. More episodic than the other two films in this series, the theme of man's inhumanity is nonetheless unfolded with Kobayashi's typically devastating economy of means. (officiële tekst van distribiteur)
(meer)Acteurs
Taketoshi Naitō
Japan
Beste films:
Ningen no jôken III (1961)
Gunki hatameku moto ni (1972)
Ningen no jôken II (1959)
Tatsuya Nakadai
Japan
Beste films:
Zatóiči abare himacuri (1970)
Nikudan (1968)
Shichinin no samurai (1954)
佐藤慶
Japan
Beste films:
Zatoichi no uta ga kikoeru (1966)
Taijó o nusunda otoko (1979)
Bušidó zankoku monogatari (1963)
Michiyo Aratama
Japan
Beste films:
Nihon no ičiban nagai hi (1967)
Ningen no jôken III (1961)
Ningen no jôken I (1959)
Keiji Sada
Japan
Beste films:
Ningen no jôken I (1959)
Eien no hito (1961)
Ningen no jôken II (1959)
田中邦衛
Japan
Beste films:
Zatóiči abare himacuri (1970)
Nikudan (1968)
Tsubaki Sanjūrō (1962)
内田良平
Japan
Beste films:
Ningen no jôken II (1959)
Džúsannin no šikaku (1963)
Šinsengumi (1969)
Jun Hamamura
Japan
Beste films:
Nihon no ičiban nagai hi (1967)
Zatoichi no uta ga kikoeru (1966)
Tengoku to džigoku (1963)
倉田マユミ
Japan
Beste films:
Ningen no jôken II (1959)
原泉
Japan
Beste films:
Ningen no jôken II (1959)
Den-en ni shisu (1974)
Kamigami no fukaki yokubô (1968)
Shôji Yasui
Japan
Beste films:
Ningen no jôken II (1959)
Biruma no tategoto (1956)
Akódžó danzecu (1978)
Nakajirō Tomita
Japan
Beste films:
Ningen no jôken III (1961)
Seppuku (1962)
Ningen no jôken I (1959)
Masahiko Naruse
Japan
Beste films:
Ningen no jôken III (1961)
Bušidó zankoku monogatari (1963)
Ningen no jôken I (1959)