Human (1962)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:56:02 | 4,07 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 1.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Drama
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:56:02 | 4,07 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 1.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Drama
Director: Kaneto Shindô
Stars: Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô
Based on Nogami Yaeko’s original novel, The Neptune, which was based on real-life events, it follows four people stuck on a small fishing ship that is adrift at sea. After running out of fuel and losing their rudder in a storm, they find themselves lost with no navigation, and it’s during Obon, a religious Japanese holiday which means NO ONE will be out looking for them during the festival. They immediately split into two groups, the Captain and his young shipmate ( Taiji Tonoyama and Kei Yamamoto respectively), and headstrong Hachizo (Kei Satô) and Gorosuke (Nobuko Otowa) the woman who is corrupted by Hachizo as the film progresses.
Everyone becomes increasingly desperate as food and water run out. Considering how powerful food is in Japanese culture, I imagine starvation would be the most horrific way to die. There are some really interesting montage sequences where they first ration their food and water and begin to go a little mad, all set to mellow jazz music. The kind of stock jazz you would hear in a lot of Nikkatsu films at the time. Naturally once the provisions are gone, they turn on each other.
Note! This is NOT a Criterion release and never been yet. Just a Custom cover. HQ Cover are here.
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Although Kaneto Shindô had been moderately successful working as a writer and director for Daiei (and later Nikkatsu) throughout the 1950′s, by 1960 Shindô was starting to find his true voice as a director. He founded his own production company, Kindai Eiga Kaikyo, to help finance what would be his first masterpiece, The Naked Island. He followed that with Human, an equally awesome little “love story” set on a boat lost at sea. Naturally, without the help of the major studios to back him, Shindô had trouble exhibiting the film. At that same time the fledgling independent cinema group, The Art Theatre Guild was gaining influence with their single art-house cinema in Shinjuku. At that point the ATG was primarily showing foreign films that the majors couldn’t care less about (Fellini, Godard, Bergman, and other no-name hacks), but Shindô’s Human was to be the first domestic title for ATG exhibition (along with Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Pitfall). It was the beginning of the most significant period in Japanese film history, and helped kick start a movement that would completely change Japanese cinema. Coincidentally, when the ATG finally dissolved in 1992, it was Shindô’s latest film, The Strange Tale of Oyuki that closed the curtain.
Fantastic! A crew of four on a small fishing vessel get stranded after their ship is destroyed in a storm. They have a small supply of food and water, and soon the tensions are rising. This is just a beautifully shot (in that glorious black and white widescreen that Japan of the 60s excelled at) and directed film. Shindo's use of space is outstanding. Taiji Tonoyama plays the captain, a man who lived through the starvation of the war. Kei Yamamoto plays Tonyama's young nephew. Kei Sato and Nobuko Otowa play the other two crew members, and the ones who decide that they no longer want to follow the captain's orders. This is nearly a masterpiece, but there are a couple of plot developments toward the end that feel a bit too pat. The title translates to A Man, The Man or just Human (which is the translation my subtitles settled on).IMDB Reviewer
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