The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (Ningen no jôken) (1961)

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Directed by

Masaki Kobayashi

Starring (View all)

Tatsuya Nakadai
Kaji

Michiyo Aratama
Michiko

Tamao NAKAMURA
Hinannmin no Shôjo

Yusuke Kawazu
Terada Nitôhei

Chishu Ryu
Hinanmin no Chôrô

Taketoshi Naitô
Tange Ittôhei

Kyôko Kishida
Ryûko

Reiko Hitomi
Umeko

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Zenzô Matsuyama
(screenplay)

Masaki Kobayashi
(screenplay)

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3 years, 2 months ago at Sep 20 23:17

fernando

(OK) Erratic as depicts a painful errance through hell. Episodic in opposition as I and II, including sex. The best is the relationship with Terada who dies for Kaki. That´s hopeless...

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Part three of a trilogy. After the Japanese defeat to the Russians in the last episode, Kaji, the Japanese soldier and humanist 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, whom do not seem to hold to the Communist ideals in which Kaji himself had put his faith.

Release date: 5 August 1970
UPC: 014381455229

Tags: Japan (4), 1960s (4), History (3), War (3), Japanese (3), Sequel (3), Drama (3), World War II (2), East Asia (2), Soldiers (2), 1961 (2), Soviet Union (2), Asian (2), China (2), WWII (1), 60's (1), Japon (1), 1945 (1), Foreign Language (1), 1960's (1)

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“(OK) Erratic as depicts a painful errance through hell. Episodic in opposition as I and II, including sex. The best is the relationship with Terada who dies for Kaki. That´s hopeless...” read more