The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity 1959 123movies

Watch: 人間の條件 第３部望郷篇／第４部戦雲篇 1959 123movies, Full Movie Online – Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army; he revolts against the abusive treatment spent to the recruit Obara that commits suicide; he also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border; and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division..
Plot: Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
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The cinematography is striking in black and white
This is the second of a three-part movie (9.5 hours in total) covering one man’s experience during World War II. This part takes place in 1943 in a military training unit, and later in 1945 in Manchuria, after the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria in August 1945. Part II is three hours in length.

Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai) has now been drafted in 1943 into the Japanese military. He resists veterans’ harsh treatment of new recruits even though he personally excels at physical fitness and target practice. He is deeply shaken by the suicide of a recruit named Obara (Kunie Tanaka) after brutal treatment. He is allowed one brief visit with his wife, Michiko (Michiyo Aratama). Later, in early 1945, Kaji, now a private first class, becomes a trainer of new recruits, including older men in their 40s. He is still harassed and sometimes beaten by five-year veterans because he refuses to treat his men harshly and continues to believe the war is based on false values.

In August 1945, Kaji and his platoon are sent to dig trenches to anticipate the Soviet attack on Manchuria. There is much despair as the men know that Okinawa has been lost. There is an extended battle scene where Kaji’s rifle company in foxholes tries to fight 15 Soviet tanks and support troops.

There is much violence in Part II, but it is not graphic. The cinematography remains striking in black and white. Kaji several times states his opposition to the Japanese war machine. He is willing to fight to protect his men and himself, though he looks appalled the first time he kills a Soviet soldier. He also considers himself a murderer when forced to kill a comrade who has gone mad.

This is the 18th in my list of movies in which pacifists are primary characters. In Part II, Kaji is not strictly a pacifist, though he remains very anti-military.

War is maddening… and also apparently repetitive and boring.
I don’t know how anyone in the Japanese army in World War II got any sleep as everyone yells at the top of their lungs constantly – whether they are opening a door or closing a door or doing anything in between as shown in this film. It is grating.

The second part of this boring, repetitive, pointless and flat trilogy continues with Tatsuya Nakadai proving he truly cannot act but he sure can open his eyes wider and for longer than any other actor in films, past or present… Perhaps it is a cultural barrier. Perhaps it is just that time has not been kind to this film as it just repeats the theme “war is hell, men are monsters” over and over and over again until its final scene where our hero finally considers himself a monster rather than a man as well.

Part 1 was long and boring and repetitive enough with its version of this message (prison is hell) – but Part 2 elevates the “life is hell” theme to the level of absurdist ennui… set in a latrine.

This 9 1/2 hour epic has themes and stories that have been told better, more succinctly and more emotionally in the years before and since these films. It all rather trite. Plus the special effects and sound effects in this film are amateurish. I realize Japanese filmmaking may have been far behind American filmmaking in 1959 – just and I’ll admit that pacifistic films in America in 1959 left a lot to be desired… (we’ve since produced plenty of psychologically based films that far surpass this one – just as Japan has surpassed American films in special effects and sound effects.) but this trilogy is so boring and thematically outdated that it is almost vapid – and certainly unwatchable.

I will only be watching Part 3 simply to be able to say that I’ve seen all 3 pieces of this film. I will wear my endurance like a badge of honor to signify to other cinemaphiles that I am as valiant as they in my ability to wallow through the doldrums and the one-dimensional cinematic wasteland that is The Human Condition.

Other Information:

Original Language ja
Runtime 3 hr 1 min (181 min), 1 hr 52 min (112 min) (West Germany)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, History, War
Director Masaki Kobayashi
Writer Zenzô Matsuyama, Masaki Kobayashi, Jumpei Gomikawa
Actors Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Kokinji Katsura
Country Japan
Awards 5 wins
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 4,938 m (14 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Shochiku Grandscope (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm