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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Year: 1959
Time: 208
Aspect Ratio
2.35:1 (Anamorphic)
Audio
Japanese 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
Japanese 4.0 Dolby Digital Surround
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Year: 1959
Time: 181
Aspect Ratio
2.35:1 (Anamorphic)
Audio
Japanese 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
Japanese 4.0 Dolby Digital Surround
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Year: 1961
Time: 190
Aspect Ratio
2.35:1 (Anamorphic)
Audio
Japanese 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
Japanese 4.0 Dolby Digital Surround
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
| The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
| The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Licensor
Shochiku
Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi
Featuring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Tamao Nakamura, Kokinji Katsura, Chikage Awashima, Yûsuke Kawazu, Jun Tatara, Ineko Arima, Michirô Minami, So Yamamura, Taketoshi Naito, Kei Sato, Akira Ishihama, Kyoko Kishida, Shinji Nambara, Kunie Tanaka, Chishu Ryu, Seiji Miyaguchi, Toru Abe, Masao Mishima
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.
Technical Specifications
Format: DVD
Aspect Ratio:
2.35:1 (Anamorphic)
Audio:
Japanese 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
, Japanese 4.0 Dolby Digital Surround
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Subtitles:
English
Region:
1
Discs:
4 Discs |
DVD-5/DVD-9
Supplements
- Excerpt from a rare Directors Guild of Japan video interview with director Masaki Kobayashi, conducted by filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda (Double Suicide)
- New video interview with actor Tatsuya Nakadai
- Video appreciation of Kobayashi and The Human Condition featuring Masahiro Shinoda
- Japanese theatrical trailers
- An insert featuring an essay by critic Philip Kemp
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
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Producer: Curtis Tsui
Artwork: Sarah Habibi
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