Wednesday, April 19, 2023

THE HUMAN CONDITION III - A SOLDIER'S PRAYER (1961)
























Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi
Based on the novel by: Junpei Gomikawa
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Tamao Nakamura, Yusuke Kawazu, Chishu Ryu, Taketoshi Naito, Kyoko Kishida, Ed Keene, Ronald Self, Nobuo Kaneko, Kazuo Kitamura, Toshio Takahara, Kin Sugai, Hideko Takamine

190 minutes
(NR - adult themes)
Country of origin: Japan

PLOT:
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians in the last episode, Kaji, the Japanese soldier and humanistic protagonist, leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines. Ultimately, he finds himself in the exact opposite position he held in the first episode: Then a labor manager, Kaji is now a prisoner of war, forced to work for the Russians, who do not seem to hold to the Communist ideals in which Kaji himself had put his faith.
 

No comments:

Post a Comment

THE MIDDLE (2009 - 2018) draft

Created by: Eileen Heisler , DeAnn Heline Starring: Patricia Heaton, Neil Flynn, Charlie McDermott, Eden Sher, Atticus Shaffer, Chris Kattan...