Nakadai, Tatsuya
Nakadai, Tatsuya
Jpn Lng/Eng Sub
Nr/4 Dvd/Criterion Collection
DVD-STANDARD
UPC: 715515046619
Release Date: 9/8/2009
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Masaki Kobayashi's mammoth humanist drama is one of the most staggering achievements of Japanese cinema. Originally filmed and released in three parts, the 9 1/2 hour film (Ningen no joken), adapted from Junpei Gomikawa's 6-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.
