Ana-ta-han

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1954-05-17

Languages:

Japanese, English

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (370 Reviews)

Director:

Josef von Sternberg

Genres:

Drama War

Cast:

Akemi Negishi Tadashi Suganuma Kisaburo Sawamura Shèji Nakayama

Writer:

Younghill Kang (novel)

Michiro Maruyama (novel)

Josef von Sternberg (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Josef von Sternberg directed, photographed, provides the voice-over narration and wrote the screenplay (from a based-on-actual event novel by Michiro Maruyana translated by Younghill Kang) 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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