The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

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Dani G Heavy drama. Patient storytelling. Powerful film. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/15/23 Full Review andres s Wow, this is the youngest I've ever seen Nakadai. Very cinematic movie. It reminds me of Casablanca a little bit. The scope of it is quite grand and epic. I didn't know what to expect from this movie but I'm liking it so far. God, what a miserable place that mining town. Oh shit, it seems like Kaji is in over his head with this new manager laborer job. It's crazy how crooked and unfair Kaji's coworkers are. These "supervisors" are taking advantage of and mistreating their laborers. I can see why this movie is called The Human Condition as it deals with the fairness and justice of human lives. The disregard for human life that people can learn during wartime is something that I'll never get over. It can turn a person into a cruel soulless monster. Shit, I wonder how things are going to change now that they're taking in 600 Chinese POW's and putting them to work in their mines. Wow, when they opened up those train cars and the people started pouring out, that was like some Holocaust type shit. TO BE CONTINUED… So! Same thing with A Brighter Summer Day, this movie's long as fuck. Too long for me to give a damn about what happens next at this point in time in my life. I do want to finish it and it was turning out to be a good movie, but right now, I don't care to spend another 2 hours finishing it. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member A magnificent film of unfathomable pathos and grit. Quite provocative and intense. Definitely not for lovers of cliched, gentle and glamorized cinema or superhero scintillating heroics. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member This film is brilliantly crafted with powerful characters, emotions, struggles, betrayal, and of course suffering. With a theme similar to Schindler's List, this is a film that expresses the real life horrors of the Second World War, told from the view of a Japanese man as he begins realize the evil and horror that his country is helping to spread around the world. At almost three and a half hours, the film leaves us with many interesting stories and characters to follow. So even if the film's running time is unattractive, it's a movie no one should miss. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member A sweeping epic brimming with raw emotion and brilliantly drawn characters. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member This review is for all 6 movies that comprise the epic The Human Condition. With Nakadai's acting and Kobayashi's directing, this is a masterpiece of cinema. Don't let the run-time of over 9 hours deter you from watching the best war epic of all time. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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