Cast
Crew
K
Keiichi Uraoka
Editor
S
Shigeru Wakatsuki
Producer
Y
Yoshio Miyajima
Director of Photography
Z
ZenzÅ Matsuyama
Screenplay
J
Jumpei Gomikawa
Novel
K
Kazue Hirataka
Art Direction
K
Kôshichi Yoshida
Costume Design
K
Kôichi Inagaki
Assistant Director
S
Seiji Ishikawa
Set Decoration
The Human Condition
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.
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