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Watch the epic trail­er for Masa­ki Kobayashi’s The Human Con­di­tion trilogy

08 Sep 2016

Words by Oscar Rickett

The director’s bold and bleak cin­e­mat­ic vision chron­i­cles life in World War Two-era Japan.

Long may Arrow Films’ ongo­ing com­mit­ment to releas­ing epic, mul­ti-disc, ​“dif­fi­cult” Japan­ese-lan­guage epics con­tin­ue apace. In 2015 they dropped the long lost Love + Anar­chism box set on an unsus­pect­ing pub­lic, and since then have released a Stray Cat Rock col­lec­tion and announced a gigan­tic Bat­tles With­out Hon­our and Human­i­ty Blu-ray set, which is en route for late 2016.

Also on the dock­et is a plush, BR release of Masa­ki Kobayashi’s The Human Con­di­tion tril­o­gy, chron­i­cling the relent­less strug­gles of life in World War Two-era Japan. A dizzy­ing epic of social and polit­i­cal upheaval and its effect on the indi­vid­ual, this stun­ning new trail­er offers a small taster of the director’s lac­er­at­ing cin­e­mat­ic vision.

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The Human Con­di­tion tril­o­gy is released on 19 Sep­tem­ber 2016.

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