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Anatahan (The Saga of Anatahan)

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Original title

Anatahanaka

AKA

Ana-ta-han

Year

1953

Running time

97 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Josef von Sternberg

Screenwriter

Josef von Sternberg. Novel: Michiro Maruyama

Cast

Music

Akira Ifukube

Cinematography

Josef von Sternberg (B&W)

Producer

Daiwa

Genre

Drama. War | II World War

Synopsis

Josef von Sternberg directed, photographed, provides the voice-over narration and wrote the screenplay about twelve Japanese seaman who, in June 1944, are stranded on an abandoned-and-forgotten island called An-ta-han for seven years. The island's only inhabitants are the overseer of the abandoned plantation and an attractive young Japanese woman. Discipline is represented by a former warrant officer but ends when he suffers a loss-of-face catastrophe. Soon, discipline and rationality are replaced by a struggle for power and the woman. Power is represented by a pair of pistols found in the wreckage of an American airplane, so important that five men pay for their lives in a bid for supremacy.

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Anatahan (The Saga of Anatahan)

1953

Josef von Sternberg

7.1

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