

181 minutes
6/12/1971
Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of China. Based on the novels by Jumpei Gomikawa, who also penned The Human Condition.

Osamu Takizawa
as Yusuke Godai

Shinsuke Ashida
as Keisuke Godai

Ruriko Asaoka
as Yukiko Godai

Etsushi Takahashi
as Eisuke Godai

Nakamura Kanzaburo
as Shunsuke Godai

Sayuri Yoshinaga
as Yoriko Godai

Kei Yamamoto
as Kohei Shimegi

Mitsuko Mito
as Otaki

Hideki Takahashi
as Shintaro Tsuge

Yūjirō Ishihara
as Shinozaki Ryoki

Rentaro Mikuni
as Shigata Komijiro

Kōji Takahashi
as Masanori Takanata

Gō Katō
as Tatsuo Hattori

Yoshiko Sakuma
as Atsuko Sato

Komaki Kurihara
as Cho Zuiho

Kō Nishimura

Takeo Chii
as Xu Zailin

Gaku Yamamoto
as Haku Eisho

Kyôko Kishida
as Sanko Otori

Ken Hatano
as Takei Hiromichi

Zenji Yamada
as Shokichi Umetani

Masako Izumi
as Kuni Umetani
Nobutada Iwasaki
as Cho Ennen
Shin Tatsuoka
as Cho Daifuku
Natsue Kimura
as Min-buk

Shinjirō Ehara
as Haiyama

Kōji Nanbara
as Shiro Jinnai

Kazunaga Tsuji
as Raita Oshio

Hisashi Igawa
as Park
Masaaki Maeda
as Liang Ensheng
Ulf Otsuki
as Ivanov

Isao Tamagawa
as Saburo Aizawa

Jūkei Fujioka
as Seishirō Itagaki
Shin Saito
as Shimazu

Mizuho Suzuki
as Narrator (voice)