The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer

Havard Film Archive
24 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sat., Oct. 3, 2026, 7 – 10:10 p.m.



Kobayashi closes The Human Condition in the fiery embers of WWII’s bitter end, as Kaji struggles to lead his ragtag troop of survivors across enemy lines towards an ever more distant home. The most dream-like and cinematographically daring of the three films, A Soldier’s Prayer offers a truly visionary depiction of war as it glides through nightmare scenes of terrifying carnage, wastelands punctuated by intimate interludes with strangers along the way, including Takamine Hideko and Ryu Chishu in charged cameos as orphans of the storm and painful reminders of the lost world of everyday life.

Gazette Classification: Diversity and Inclusion, Film
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive & the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Cost: $10 - Regular Admission / $8 - Non-Harvard Students, Harvard staff and Senior Citizens. Harvard students free.
Ticket Web Link: harvardfilmarchive.org…
Contact Info: [email protected]
Harvard Key Required: No
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