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War, Drama, History 204 min
Rotten Tomatoes73%IMDb
The Immortal Story.
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts and moves with his newlywed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
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Contemplative, prestige, demanding and epic.
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I'm finally through watching this mammoth of an epic (for several days) and I'm beyond impressed! When I think of a great movie, this trilogy comes very close to what I typically have in mind: A well-written, well-directed, well-acted story that actually has something important to say about life and the world as much as it entertains. That is, a great movie ought to be bold and creative in communicating a strong social and/or moral message as much as, or even more than, it entertains. This 9+ hours epic by Kobayashi successfully manages this albeit not without its faults, which I'll come to later. Firstly, I'd just like to say that of all the things I loved about this trilogy, most of all, I adore how Kobayashi - a self-proclaimed socialist himself - explores the humanistic principles behind socialism and the challenges that face their actualization within a capitalist and bureaucratic reality where almost everyone is content with the delusions that seemingly justify the capitalist hell they're living in. I love how he does this in a seamless yet starkly realistic way that, while it ruthlessly critiques capitalism and its consequences, it also lays bare the challenges facing any at
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