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Title Statement | The human condition [DVD] / a Shochiku film, Bungei Production, Ninjin Club ; screenplay by Masaki Kobayashi, Zenzo Matsuyama ; produced by Shigeru Wakatsuki ; directed by Masaki Kobayashi. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Ningen no joken |
Series | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) |
Additional Contributors | Kobayashi, Masaki,1916-1996 |
Nakadai, Tatsuya,1932- | |
Aratama, Michiyo | |
Arima, Ineko | |
Gomikawa, Junpei,1916-1995 | |
Publication | [New York]: Criterion Collection, c2009. |
Edition | Four-disc special ed. |
Extent of Item | 4 videodiscs (574 min.) |
ISBN | 160465161X (v.r.) 9781604651614 (v.r.) |
Standard Number (UPC, etc.) | 715515046619 |
Other Number | 2009747 |
General Notes | DVDs. Disc label title. Originally released as a motion picture trilogy, 1959-1961. Based on the novel Ningen no joken by Junpei Gomikawa. "Janus Films"--Container. Widescreen version. Special features include: excerpt from a Directors Guild of Japan video interview with director Masaki Kobayashi, conducted by filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda, video interview with actor Tatsuya Nakadai, featurette, Japanese theatrical trailers. Booklet with chapter list and essay by critic Philip Kemp inserted in container. |
Performance Credits | Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Ineko Arima, Chikage Awashima, Keiji Sada. |
Languages | Japanese language track with English subtitles. |
System Details | DVDs Dolby mono (programs 1, 2), Dolby stereo (program 3). |
Terms of Use | Public performance rights. |
Summary | Follows a pacifist in WWII-era Japan who struggles to resist corruption and dehumanization while living as a labor camp supervisor, soldier, and prisoner-of-war. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Pacifists--Fiction |
Prisoners of war--Fiction | |
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction--Social aspects | |
Motion pictures, Japanese | |
Foreign films | |
By Genre | Anti-war films |
Epic films | |
Feature films |