Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1 (1931)
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island, turns into a tragedy of King Lear dimensions, and manages to amaze the blasé audience with a happy end in the Wild West.
Director:
Yasujirō Shimazu
Writer:
Tokusaburo Murakami
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Sôjin Kamiyama as Kokichi Yamaguchi |
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Tokihiko Okada as Osamu |
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Mitsuko Hikari as Fujiko |
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Reikichi Kawamura as Yoichi Matsuyama |
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Mitsuko Yoshikawa as Misao |
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Hideko Takamine as Yasuo (Son) |
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Shin'yō Nara as Kentaro Sekiya |
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Shizue Tatsuta as Sakura |
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Kinuyo Tanaka as Mayumi |
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Denmei Suzuki as Yu |
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Hideo Fujino as Okada |
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Shoichi Nodera as Katayama |
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Ryōtarō Mizushima as Kasuga |
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Tokuji Kobayashi as Kaneda |
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Kenichi Miyajima as Yamamoto |
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Kikuko Hanaoka as Isamu (Geisha) |
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Yukiko Tsukuba as |
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Tatsuo Saitō as Shibukawa (Dentist) |
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Atsushi Watanabe as Yoshida (Secretary) |
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Jun Arai as Clerk |
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Yukichi Iwata as Bank President |
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Hideo Takeda as Executive |
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Sōtarō Okada as Driver |
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Hisao Furuya as Waiter |
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Kanji Kawara as Detective |
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Shoichi Kofujita as |
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Fumiko Katsuragi as Yu's Mother |
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Chōko Iida as Bar Madame |
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Mack Swain as Doctor |
| Directing | Yasujirō Shimazu | Director |
| Writing | Tokusaburo Murakami | Screenplay |
| Writing | Tokusaburo Murakami | Story |
| Camera | Shin'ichi Nagai | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Takashi Kuwabara | Director of Photography |
| Art | Yoneichi Wakita | Art Direction |
| Art | Takashi Kono | Art Direction |
| Art | Shôtarô Hashimoto | Set Designer |
| Camera | Mitsuo Miura | Assistant Camera |