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- Loan Terms:
- Circulating
- Status:
- In
- DVD002819
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Human Condition, The
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Kobayashi, Masaki
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Criterion Collection, 2009
- Description:
- DVD - Region 1. viewing copy. 4 videodiscs of 4.
b/w.
widescreen. sound - Dolby digital monaural.
- Notes:
- Discs 1-3 of this set are the entire film work, while disc 4 is bonus features. Supplemental features include: Kobayashi interview by Masahiro Shinoda (14 min, 1993); interview with actor Tatsuya Nakadai (18 min, 2009); “Video Appreciation” of THE HUMAN CONDITION with filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda (25 min, 2009); trailers for pts 1,2, & 3. All supplements in Japanese with optional English subtitles. Essay booklet available at the checkout.
Titles
+ No Greater Love
- Alternate Title:
- Ningen No Joken
- Director:
- Koboyashi, Masaki
- Production Co:
- Shochiku Co. Ltd
- Running Time:
- Feature. 208 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Japan
- Year:
- 1959
- Language:
- Japanese language with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Drama - Historical, Tragedy, Film Adaptation
- Notes:
- Kaji leaves for Manchuria to accept a job as a labor supervisor to exempt him from military service. Kaji attempts to improve the workers conditions but he is prevented by the pit supervisor Okazaki his only sympathy comes from the foreman Okishima, his assistant Chen, and his wife Michiko. An outbreak is instigated by his enemies after which Kaji is arrested and charged with conspiracy. He is released without explanation only to receive his call to military service.
- Link to:
- FII catalog | AFI catalog
+ Road to Eternity, The
- Alternate Title:
- Zoku Ningen No Joken
- Director:
- Koboyashi, Masaki
- Production Co:
- Shochiku Co. Ltd
- Running Time:
- Feature. 181 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Japan
- Year:
- 1959
- Language:
- Japanese language with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Drama - Historical, Tragedy, Film Adaptation
- Notes:
- Second part of the The Human Condition trilogy. Kaji joins the army and, distressed by the suffering of his fellow recruits, attempts to speak out against this cruelt. He is suspected of having Communist tendencies as is his friend Shinjo. One day Shinjo tries to escape and Kaji is injured when he tries to rescue him. After leaving the hospital, he is sent to a different unit where he is promoted. Finally, after the surrender of Germany, Russia turns its attention to the small Japanese units and Kaji and his troops are attacked.
- Link to:
- FII catalog | AFI catalog
+ A Soldier’s Prayer
- Alternate Title:
- Ningen no Joken
- Director:
- Koboyashi, Masaki
- Production Co:
- Shochiku Co. Ltd
- Running Time:
- Feature. 190 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Japan
- Year:
- 1960
- Language:
- Japanese language with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Drama - Historical, Tragedy, Film Adaptation
- Notes:
- Third part of The Human Condition trilogy. In the face of the sudden Russian invasion, Kaji and a handful of survivors fight their way to southern Manchuria. Murder, treachery, and other vicious crimes are rampant as the Japanese forces retreat. Kaji intends to fight his way back to his wife but is taken prisoner by the Russians and held in a prison camp. Here he learns at first hand that his ideas about Socialism are a far cry from reality. Finally Kaji escapes and attempts to make his way back to his wife who has been waiting for him. Eventually he is unable to continue, he falls and is enveloped in the falling snow.
- Link to:
- FII catalog | AFI catalog