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Human Being and War: Mountains and Rivers of Lave and Sadness

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Sequel of:

Men and War

Sequel:

Human Being and War, Cont'd Man and War, Part III

Original title

Senso to ningen II: Ai to kanashimino sanga

Year

1971

Running time

180 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Satsuo Yamamoto

Screenwriter

Atsushi Takeda, Nobuo Yamada

Cast

Music

Masaru Satô

Cinematography

Shinsaku Himeda

Producer

Nikkatsu

Genre

Drama. War | Sequel. Family Relationships. 1930s

Synopsis

Yamamoto Satsuo directed this masterful 9 hour epic trilogy on the effects of war on the five generations of a single Japanese family. Based on Gomikawa Jumpei's (The Human Condition) bestselling novel, the film trilogy skillfully blends newsreel and archive footage with an all-star cast, exotic locations, and beautiful cinematography. The first part follows the rise of the Godai clan rise from war-profiteers to their becoming powerful industrialists in Japanese-occupied Manchuria during the 1930s. The second part follow the the stories of two brothers serving in different units of the Imperial Japanese army from 1935 to 1937 when Japan launched a full scale invasion of China. The third and final part details the family’s trials during the Sino-Japanese War to the Soviet army's invasion of Japanese-occupied Northeastern China at the end of World War II.

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Human Being and War: Mountains and Rivers of Lave and Sadness

1971

Satsuo Yamamoto