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The human condition Parts 3 & 4
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Gomikawa, Junpei, 1916-1995. Ningen no jōken--Film adaptations.
- Gomikawa, Junpei.
- Soldiers--Japan--Drama.
- Soldiers.
- Prisoners--Soviet Union--Drama.
- Prisoners.
- Labor camps--Japan--Drama.
- Labor camps.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 190 minutes) digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2014
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- 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
- Notes:
- Title from title frames
- Originally produced by Criterion Collection/Janus Films in 1960
- OCLC:
- 900275647
- Publisher Number:
- 1113329 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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