The Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity (Ningen no joken II) (1959)

Who knew Full Metal Jacket was a remake? Barely ekeing out A Soldier's Prayer, Road to Eternity is my favorite of the three. Sure, it's got structural similarities to Kubrick's film, with volume 3 detailing Kaji's torturous boot camp training (complete with a bathroom…

PTAbro

Human goodness is a tricky one to portray in art. It is incredibly easy to make the character into a myth, a legend, the perfect individual who never makes mistakes, who is equipped with the perfect moral code, and whose circumstances enable him to do 'absolute' good by…

Lara Pop

Full Metal Jacket wishes

Zegan

"I'm a monster, but I'm still alive."

matt lynch

There are heroes, there are superheroes and then there’s Kaji.

Percepta

“To hell with your family, the fate of Japan is at stake!” The second part in Masaki Kobayashi’s immense anti-war epic The Human Condition sees our pacifistic protagonist Kaji faced with the mounting pressure and cruelty of the military as he’s forced into the army he so…

braden

Yaar aisi patient , honest , courageous, critical of the world , simple filmein ab kabhi ban page hi ya nahin ha are desh mein ya bahar .. behtareen film lekin bad dekh hi sakte hain , bana nahin sakte

Anurag Kashyap

If you were to take a shot every time some gets slapped in the face, you'd be dead before the halfway point. This one breaks the record for most slaps per minute. No face goes unslapped in this movie. The Human Condition trilogy is definitely shaping up to be one of the…

Felipe F.

You think it can't get better than Part 1, but in fact it does get better in Part 2. Still so horrible to see a man keep fighting for his humanity and dignity, while everything around him is collapsing, and sadly losing himself too against this world of war and sadness.…

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