Movie Details
Theatrical Release:December 14th, 1959
Original Language:Japanese
Production Companies:Ninjin Club
Cast & Crew
K
Keiichi Uraoka
Editor
J
Jumpei Gomikawa
Novel
S
Shigeru Wakatsuki
Producer
K
Kazue Hirataka
Art Direction
The Human Condition Collection
The Human Condition is a Japanese film epic released as a trilogy between 1959 and 1961. The trilogy follows the life of Kaji, a Japanese pacifist and socialist, as he tries to survive in the totalitarian and oppressive world of World War II-era Japan. Taken altogether as a single film, it is 9 hours and 47 minutes long, which includes intermissions, making it one of the longest narrative films ever made. While the films earned considerable controversy at the time of their release in Japan, The Human Condition was critically acclaimed, won many international awards, and has since established Masaki Kobayashi as one of the most important Japanese directors of his generation.
