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Tatsuya Nakadai in The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959)

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Kei Sato, Kunie Tanaka, Michiro Minami, Keiji Sada, Kokinji Katsura, Jun Tatara. Screenplay: Zenzo Matsuyama, Masaki Kobayashi, based on a novel by Junpei Gomikawa. Cinematography: Yoshio Miyajima. Art direction: Kazue Hirataka. Film editing: Keiichi Uraoka. Music: Chuji Kinoshita.

If the first part of Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Condition makes me think of the earnest "serious pictures" that came out of Hollywood in the 1940s -- I have in mind such movies as The Razor's Edge (Edmund Goulding, 1946), in which Tyrone Power searches for the meaning of life, or Gentleman's Agreement (Elia Kazan, 1947), in which Gregory Peck crusades against antisemitism -- then the second part, Road to Eternity, suggests, even in its subtitle, the influence of From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann, 1953), that near-scathing* look at brutality in Army basic training. Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai), our idealistic protagonist, has been sent to war, and has to endure all manner of abuse even though he's an excellent marksman and a sturdy trooper. His objections to Japanese militarism and his belief that the war is wrong mark him out as a "Red," and for a time he contemplates escaping into his idealized version of the Soviet Union. But his sympathy for his fellow recruits keeps him plugging away, occasionally taking heat for his defense of them, especially from the military veterans who have been called up to serve. They object to his treating the recruits he is put in charge of training with respect and human decency -- they went through hell in basic training, so why shouldn't everyone? The film ends with a cataclysmic battle sequence, during which Kaji has to kill one of his fellow soldiers, who has gone stark raving mad and whose antics threaten the lives of other soldiers. It's not the first time Kaji has resorted to killing a fellow soldier: Earlier, he has been mired in quicksand with a brutal man who has caused the suicide of a recruit, and Kaji lets him drown. The intensity of the battle scenes takes some of the focus away from Kaji's intellectualizing, which is all to the good.

*I have to qualify: From Here to Eternity is not as scathing as the James Jones novel on which it's based, thanks to the Production Code and the residual good feeling of having won the war. In some ways, The Human Condition II is more properly an anticipation of Stanley Kubrick's no-holds-barred Full Metal Jacket (1987).

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danganspritemakers · 2 years

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Edits for a fangan! (Michiro is part of it)

Minami Kyojin - Ultimate Detective (The protag, and they're nonbinary!)

Kohaku Shirame - Ultimate Music Box Creator (Most likely going to be a support character.)

Shizuha Kagiyama - Ultimate Figure Skater (A cool girl whose sprite I don't know how I'm going to crop...)

Amai Kobaikawa - Ultimate Matchmaker (The newest edit, and the girl's a leapling!)

All of them are interesting! The little details such as the heart buttons on Amai and the locket on Minami add to the characters.

In parts there is a lot of empty space, and your shading is more minimal than usual for Danganronpa, but the edits are good and the character designs are certainly appealing.

I also have a question. Kohaku’s skin is very saturated yellow, so is it supposed to be a darker skin tone and you saturated but did not darken the color?

Overall, you are getting better and better at these. For instance, the hair looks great on these characters. There are some parts that could require more work though.

#⛩; judgement time!#⛩; mod korekiyo

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