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The human condition. Parts 1 & 2.
Title
The human condition. Parts 1 & 2.
Publication
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 190 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Title from title frames.
Originally produced by Criterion Collection/Janus Films in 1959.
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Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
Kanopy Criterion collection.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
Japanese
Added to Catalog
September 15, 2023
Publisher's number
1113327 Kanopy
Subjects
Genre/Form
Feature films.
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