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Human Condition, The (aka: Ningen No Joken) (4 DVDs)

Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima, Ineko Arima, Keiji Sada, So Yamamura

Director: Masaki Kobayashi

Studio: Criterion Collection

Rating: NR

Genre: Drama

Sku #	:	38355
Manufacturer	:	Japan
Availability	:	Usually Ships in 3 to 5 Days

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Product Detail

Audio Format: DD 2.0

Video Format: Letterboxed 2.35:1

Languages: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Region Code: 1

Year Made: 1959

Running Time: 574

Release Date: 07/14/2009

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.

Special Features

- Black & White
- Director's Interview
- Tatsuya Nakadai Interview
- Video Appreciation Of Kobayashi
- Philip Kemp Essay
- Collectible Booklet
- Newly Translated English Subtitles
- Restored & Remastered In HD
- Trailers

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