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"One of the most important filmmakers to emerge from Japan's cinematic golden age, Masaki Kobayashi is best remembered today for his 1959 epic The Human Condition, but that is just one of the blistering films he made in a career dedicated to criticizing his country's rigid social and political orders. He first found his voicerebellious, angry, engagedin the fifties, following his life-altering experiences as a soldier in World War II; the four films collected here, made in the same period as The Human Condition, reflect Kobayashi's coming into his own as an artist. He fought to get these powerful dramas made at a studio more oriented at the time toward quiet family melodramas; they are unforgettable pictures of a postwar Japan troubled by identity crises and moral corruption on scales both intimate and institutional.
BRAND : IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
GENRE : FOREIGN VIDEO - JAPANESE
MANUFACTURER : CRITERION COLLECTION
PRODUCT TYPE : DVD
PRODUCT TYPE : DVD
RATING : UN
RELEASE DATE : 16-APR-2013
RETURNS ACCEPTED? : YES
RUNTIME : 440
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