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Eclipse Series 38 Masaki Kobayashi Against the System
The Thick-Walled Room, I Will Buy You, Black River, The Inheritance
Actors: Masaki Kobayashi, Keiko Kishi, Tatsuya Nakadai
Director: Masaki Kobayashi

2013 7hr 20min

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 c... more »areer 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. FOUR-DVD SET INCLUDES: THE THICK-WALLED ROOM (1953 110 minutes Black & White Monaural In Japanese with English subtitles 1.33:1 aspect ratio) Even early on in his directing career, Kobayashi didn't shy away from controversy. Among the first Japanese films to deal directly with the scars of World War II, this drama about a group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers jailed for crimes against humanity was adapted from the diaries of real prisoners. Because of its potentially inflammatory content, the film was shelved for three years before being released. I WILL BUY YOU (1956 112 minutes Black & White Monaural In Japanese with English subtitles 1.33:1 aspect ratio) Kobayashi's pitiless take on Japan's professional baseball industry is unlike any other sports film ever made. An excoriation of the inhumanity bred by a mercenary, bribery-fueled business, it follows the sharklike maneuvers of a scout dead set on signing a promising athlete to the team the Toyo Flowers. BLACK RIVER (1957 110 minutes Black & White Monaural In Japanese with English subtitles 1.33:1 aspect ratio) Perhaps Kobayashi's most sordid film, Black River is an exposé of the rampant corruption on and around U.S. military bases following World War II. Kobayashi spirals out from the story of a love triangle that develops between a good-natured student, his innocent girlfriend, and a coldhearted petty criminal (The Human Condition's Tatsuya Nakadai, in his first major role) to diagnose a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness, devolving into gangsterism, violence, and prostitution. THE INHERITANCE (1962 108 minutes Black & White Monaural In Japanese with English subtitles 2.40:1 aspect ratio) On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown to his family and colleagues. A bevy of lawyers and associates then begin machinations to procure the money for themselves, enlisting the aid of impostors and blackmail. Yet all are outwitted by the cunning of the man's secretary (The Makioka Sisters' Keiko Kishi), in this entertaining condemnation of unchecked greed.

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Actors: Masaki Kobayashi, Keiko Kishi, Tatsuya Nakadai
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Studio: Criterion Collection
Format: DVD - Full Screen,Widescreen - Subtitled
DVD Release Date: 04/16/2013
Release Year: 2013
Run Time: 7hr 20min
Screens: Full Screen,Widescreen
Number of Discs: 4
SwapaDVD Credits: 4
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 5
Edition: Box set,Criterion Collection
Languages: Japanese
Subtitles: English, Japanese

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