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The Human Condition (The Criterion Collection) by Masaki Kobayashi
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DVD detailsActor: Chikage Awashima, Ineko Arima, Keiji Sada, Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Nakadai Director: Masaki Kobayashi Brand: Image Entertainment Cinematographer: Yoshio Miyajima Producer: Masaki Kobayashi Writer: Masaki Kobayashi Producer: Shigeru Wakatsuki Writer: Jumpei Gomikawa Writer: Koichi Inagaki Writer: Zenzo Matsuyama DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Japanese (Original Language) Format: Black & White, Box set, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 574 minutes DVD Release Date: 2009-09-08 Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: Criterion
Description of The Human Condition (The Criterion Collection)Masaki Kobayashi?s mammoth humanist drama is one of the most staggering achievements of Japanese cinema. Originally filmed and released in three parts, the nine-and-a-half-hour The Human Condition (Ningen no joken), adapted from Junpei Gomikawa?s six-volume novel, tells of the journey of the well-intentioned yet naive Kaji (handsome Japanese superstar Tatsuya Nakadai) from labor camp supervisor to Imperial Army soldier to Soviet POW. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and again finds his morals an impediment rather than an advantage. A raw indictment of its nation?s wartime mentality as well as a personal existential tragedy, Kobayashi?s riveting, gorgeously filmed epic is novelistic cinema at its best.
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