War and Humanity 3

Yasumoto Sabu
Takizawa Osamu, Takahashi Etsushi, Asakura Ruriko, Kitada Kinya, Yoshinaga Sayuri, Ashida Shinsuke, Natsu Junko, Yamamoto Kei, Takahashi Hideki, Mito Mitsuko, Kato Yoshio, Watanabe Takeshi, Fujiwara Kamao, Katagiri Yuko, Eizawa Moeko, Ray Montgomery
1973
Japan
Completed
Japanese
184 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known as戦争と人間・第3部・完結篇,is aJapanProducerwomen sex,At1973Released in year
。The dialogue language isJapanese,Current Douban rating8.5(For reference only)。
Director Yasumoto Sabu is a master of the Japanese social film genre, and he attempts to tell the history of Japan's militaristic invasion of China through the rise and fall of the Goh family. The social large family and the small family society of the Goh family itself participated in the plundering and invasion of China, so depicting the changes and developments of this family can naturally reflect the process of Japanese aggression during that period. ① This film depicts the rising period of Japanese militarism's invasion of China. It won the second place in the Top Ten Awards of the "Film Weekly" in 1970. ② This is the second film by master Yasumoto Sabu reflecting the history of the invasion of China. The time is during the confrontation between China and Japan when the anti-Japanese movement in China began to grow, and the Goh family was also affected. The film won the fourth place in the Top Ten Awards of the "Film Weekly" in 1971. ③ This is the third film by master Yasumoto Sabu reflecting the history of the invasion of China, depicting how the invasion progressed from an initial charge to a retreat and ultimately to a complete defeat, while the Goh family also fell from great wartime profits to disintegration, with family members choosing different paths and fates amid this unprecedented turmoil. The trilogy opened the curtain on the grand social films of Japanese cinema in the 1970s, which can be seen as a great contribution by director Yasumoto Sabu to the history of Japanese cinema. The film won the tenth place in the Top Ten Awards of the "Film Weekly" in 1973.
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In 1937, the full-scale Japanese invasion of China broke out. Influenced by her father, the youngest daughter Yoshiko gradually gave up her initial obsession with love, agreeing to marry the son of a financial tycoon after losing all contact with her beloved Tsuge, who was involved in the assassination case of military affairs chief Nagata. Yoshiko's middle daughter Shunko lost contact with her leftist student boyfriend Kohei, who answered the call to serve but, influenced by Kohei's anti-war ideology, ultimately fled her family to join the peace movement and accidentally learned that Kohei was participating in the anti-Japanese movement aiding China. The second son Shunsuke was imprisoned for opposing the invasion of China and was drafted after his release. As cannon fodder, Shunsuke arrived at the decisive battlefield of Nomonhan and witnessed Lieutenant Tsuge die on the battlefield. Due to a devastating blow from the Soviet Red Army, the Japanese army retreated in panic to Hailar, where they could no longer continue. Shunsuke, who survived by luck, wandered lost among the crowd of Japanese refugees.