Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1

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

Cast: Sôjin Kamiyama, Tokihiko Okada, Mitsuko Hikari, Reikichi Kawamura, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Hideko Takamine, Shin'yō Nara, Shizue Tatsuta

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.