Veteran filmmaker Kaneto Shindo's sole ATG credit is a stark, at times harrowing, and dynamically stylized variation on the theme of human endurance so central to his long career. Shindo uses the gripping story of three men and a woman stranded on a small fishing boat far out in the Pacific Ocean in order to strip his declared human subject down to its most elemental, chronicling their intense struggle against the frightening, blinding power of hunger, despair and religious belief. The expanded canvas of Human’s black-and-white widescreen cinematography masterfully evokes the ocean's vast and terrifying indifference and the gnawing tedium that pushes the four towards unthinkable acts.