Human Condition DVD Movie

Human Condition

List Price	$79.95 (You save $17.86)
Studio	Image Entertainment
Orig Year	1959
All Time Sales Rank	52492
CD Universe Part number	7934900
Catalog number	1819
Discs	4
Release Date	Sep 08, 2009
Rating	Not Rated
Also Known As	Ningen No Joken
Running Time	574 Minutes
Additional Info	Subtitled; Black & White
Movie Details	B&W; Subtitled; Black & White; Criterion Collection / 4-Disc Set

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Human Condition DVD

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.

4-Disc Set
Region [unknown]
Box Set
Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital
1.0 Mono - Japanese
Additional Release Material:
Kobayashi/The Human Condition Video Appreciation - Masahiro Shinoda, Filmmaker
Trailers:

1. Japanese Theatrical Trailers
Interviews:

1. Japanese Video Excerpt Interview - Masaki Kobayashi, Director
2. Tatsuya Nakadai, Actor
Additional Products:
Booklet - Essay - Philip Kemp, Critic

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