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

Published 08 Sep 2016

Words by Oscar Rickett

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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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