Eclipse Series 38: Masaki Kobayashi: Against The System (Criterion Collection) On DVD
Actor: Keiko Kishi, Misako Watanabe, So Yamamura, Minoru Chiaki, Tatsuya Nakadai
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Genre: Foreign Video
Year: N/A
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: 440
Released: April 16, 2013
Rating: Unrated (Video)
Format: DVD
Misc: Black & White
Language:Japanese
Subtitles :English, Japanese
DESCRIPTION:
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 voice—rebellious, angry, engaged—in 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.
Actor: Keiko Kishi, Misako Watanabe, So Yamamura, Minoru Chiaki, Tatsuya Nakadai
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Genre: Foreign Video
Year: N/A
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: 440
Released: April 16, 2013
Rating: Unrated (Video)
Format: DVD
Misc: Black & White
Language:Japanese
Subtitles :English, Japanese
DESCRIPTION:
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 voice—rebellious, angry, engaged—in 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.
| Product Name | Eclipse Series 38: Masaki Kobayashi: Against The System (Criterion Collection) On DVD |
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