SUN JAN 18, 2026 1:00 PM THE HUMAN CONDITION 2: ROAD TO ETERNITY $10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission) Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee. Los Feliz 3 | In remembrance of Tatsuya Nakadai ‘Sunday Print Edition’ Checking Event Status... *This is an RSVP which means first come first served. This RSVP does not guarantee a seat. Not a Member? Join Today. Already a Member? Be sure you are logged in to your account. Your RSVP is being held for 1 minute, please select the quantity and fill out your contact info to complete the RSVP First Name Last Name Email Quantity Subscribe to our newsletter FINISH
ABOUT THE FILM: In Japanese with English subtitles. Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai) is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinj0 Ittohei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division. FORMAT: 35mm DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films COUNTRY: Japan ABOUT THE EVENT: Masaki Kobayashi’s mammoth humanist drama is one of the most staggering achievements of Japanese cinema. Filmed and released in three parts, the nine-and-a-half-hour THE HUMAN CONDITION (NINGEN NO JOKEN), adapted from Junpei Gomikawa’s six-volume novel, tells of the journey of the well-intentioned yet naive Kaji (handsome Japanese superstar Tatsuya Nakadai) from labor camp supervisor to Imperial Army soldier to Soviet POW. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and again finds his morals an impediment rather than an advantage. A raw indictment of its nation’s wartime mentality as well as a personal existential tragedy, Kobayashi’s riveting, gorgeously filmed epic is novelistic cinema at its best.