The Human Condition (film series)

The Human Condition
Criterion Collection DVD cover art
Directed byMasaki Kobayashi
Screenplay by
Based onThe Human Condition by Junpei Gomikawa
Produced by
  • Shigeru Wakatsuki
    (all parts)
  • Masaki Kobayashi
    (II and III only)
Starring
CinematographyYoshio Miyajima
Edited byKeiichi Uraoka
Music byChuji Kinoshita
Production
company
Ninjin Club
Distributed byShochiku
Release dates
  • 15 January 1959 (1959-01-15) (I)
  • 20 November 1959 (1959-11-20) (II)
  • 28 January 1961 (1961-01-28) (III)
Running time
  • 579 minutes (all parts)
  • 208 minutes (I)
  • 181 minutes (II)
  • 190 minutes (III)
CountryJapan
LanguagesJapanese
Mandarin
Russian
Box officeJapan rentals: ¥304.04 million (I)[1]
¥234.79 million (II)[2]

The Human Condition (人間の條件, Ningen no jōken) is a trilogy of Japanese epic war drama films co-written and directed by Masaki Kobayashi, based on the novel of the same name by Junpei Gomikawa. The films are subtitled No Greater Love (1959), Road to Eternity (1959), and A Soldier's Prayer (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.

  1. ^ "キネマ旬報ベスト・テン85回全史 1924-2011". Kinema Junpo: 148. 2012.
  2. ^ "キネマ旬報ベスト・テン85回全史 1924-2011". Kinema Junpo: 158. 2012.