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Ningen no jōken, Human condition, Shōchiku Eiga ; seisaku, Wakatsuki Shigeru ; gensaku, Gomikawa Junpei ; kyakushoku, Matsuyama Zenzō, Kobayashi Masaki ; kantoku, Kobayashi Masaki = The human condition / a Shochiku film ; produced by Shigeru Wakatsuki ; screenplay by Zenzo Matsuyama and Masaki Kobayashi ; directed by Masaki Kobayashi

DVD release of the motion picture, originally released from 1959-1961 as three films: No greater love, The road to eternity, and A soldier's prayerA foreign film (Japan)Based on the novel by Junpei GomikawaTheatrical release in the US by Janus FilmsBooklet contains essay "The prisoner" by Philip KempSpecial features (all on disc 4): excerpt from a rare Directors Guild of Japan video interview by Masahiro Shinoda of director Masaki Kobayashi (1993); new video interview with actor Tatsuya Nakadai (2009); video appreciation of Kobayashi featuring Masashiro Shinoda (2009); three Japanese theatrical trailers

black and white

quadrophonic multichannel or surround

00715515046619

880-03, Producer, Tatsuo Hosoya (2nd film); cinematography, Yoshio Miyajima ; art, Kazue Hirataka; music, Chuji Kinoshita ; editing, Keiichi Uraoka

other

9781604651614

videodisc

880-02, Nakadai Tatsuya, Aratama Michiyo, Sada Keiji, Nakamura Tamao, Kawazu Yūsuke, Ryu Chishū, Naitō Taketoshi, Takamine Hideko

4 videodiscs (574 min.), sound, black and white, 4 3/4 in. +, 1 booklet ([12] pages : 19 cm).

sound on medium

videodisc

(OCoLC)320780072

DVD ; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono. and surround

715515046619

CC1819D -- The Criterion Collection

DVD