Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

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.

Drama War History

Osamu Takizawa

(Yusuke Godai)

Shinsuke Ashida

(Keisuke Godai)

Ruriko Asaoka

(Yukiko Godai)

Etsushi Takahashi

(Eisuke Godai)

Nakamura Kanzaburo

(Shunsuke Godai)

Sayuri Yoshinaga

(Yoriko Godai)

Kei Yamamoto

(Kohei Shimegi)

Mitsuko Mito

(Otaki)

Hideki Takahashi

(Shintaro Tsuge)

Yūjirō Ishihara

(Shinozaki Ryoki)

Rentaro Mikuni

(Shigata Komijiro)

Kōji Takahashi

(Masanori Takanata)

Gō Katō

(Tatsuo Hattori)

Yoshiko Sakuma

(Atsuko Sato)

Komaki Kurihara

(Cho Zuiho)

Kō Nishimura

Takeo Chii

(Xu Zailin)

Gaku Yamamoto

(Haku Eisho)

Kyôko Kishida

(Sanko Otori)

Ken Hatano

(Takei Hiromichi)

Zenji Yamada

(Shokichi Umetani)

Masako Izumi

(Kuni Umetani)

Nobutada Iwasaki

(Cho Ennen)

Shin Tatsuoka

(Cho Daifuku)

Natsue Kimura

(Min-buk)

Shinjirô Ehara

(Haiyama)

Kôji Nanbara

(Shiro Jinnai)

Kazunaga Tsuji

(Raita Oshio)

Hisashi Igawa

(Park)

Masaaki Maeda

(Liang Ensheng)

Ulf Otsuki

(Ivanov)

Isao Tamagawa

(Saburo Aizawa)

Jūkei Fujioka

(Seishirō Itagaki)

Shin Saito

(Shimazu)

Mizuho Suzuki

(Narrator (voice))