Want a nine-hour dose of the truth of existence so harrowing that it will make you feel grateful no matter how humble your situation? Masaki Kobayshi's epic of the real cost of war boggles the mind with its creeping revelations of cosmic bleakness. Yet all the way through you know you're experiencing a truth far beyond slogans and sentiments. The Human Condition Region B Blu-ray Arrow Academy (UK) 1959-61 / B&W / 2:35 anamorphic widescreen / 574 min. / Ningen no jôken / Street Date September 19, 2016 / Available from Amazon UK £ 39.99 Starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima, Ineko Arima, Keiji Sada, So Yamamura, Kunie Tanaka, Kei Sato, Chishu Ryu, Taketoshi Naito. Cinematography Yoshio Miyajima Art Direction Kazue Hirataka <Film Editor Keiichi Uraoka Original Music Chuji Kinoshita Written by Zenzo Matsuyama, Masaki Kobayashi from the novel by Jumpei Gomikawa Produced by Shigeru Wakatsuki Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
The first Blu-ray of perhaps...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
The first Blu-ray of perhaps...
- 9/27/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Exclusive: Eight-strong line-up of titles includes Martin Hawie’s Toro.
Italian sales and acquisitions veteran Francesco Manno has launched the inaugural slate of her new Rome-based sales and co-production company Summerside International at the Efm.
Manno, former VP at Gianluca Curti’s Rome-based Minerva Pictures, has pulled together an eight-title line-up of edgy, youthful titles including German director Martin Hawie’s Toro, which is screening in Perspektive Deutsches Kino.
Set against a social-housing facility in Germany, Toro revolves around an unusual friendship between a Polish male escort and a drug-addicted friend who is on the run from three young, ruthless drug-dealers.
“I’m looking for director-driven titles with strong stories, art-house films with commercial potential,” explained Manno, who launched the company in December.
Other titles on the Summerside’s first slate include Charles-Olivier Michaud’s thriller Anna, starring Anna Mouglalis as a photojournalist who falls victim to the prostitution gangs she is investigating in Asia, and the Milan-set...
Italian sales and acquisitions veteran Francesco Manno has launched the inaugural slate of her new Rome-based sales and co-production company Summerside International at the Efm.
Manno, former VP at Gianluca Curti’s Rome-based Minerva Pictures, has pulled together an eight-title line-up of edgy, youthful titles including German director Martin Hawie’s Toro, which is screening in Perspektive Deutsches Kino.
Set against a social-housing facility in Germany, Toro revolves around an unusual friendship between a Polish male escort and a drug-addicted friend who is on the run from three young, ruthless drug-dealers.
“I’m looking for director-driven titles with strong stories, art-house films with commercial potential,” explained Manno, who launched the company in December.
Other titles on the Summerside’s first slate include Charles-Olivier Michaud’s thriller Anna, starring Anna Mouglalis as a photojournalist who falls victim to the prostitution gangs she is investigating in Asia, and the Milan-set...
- 2/14/2016
- ScreenDaily
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