Watch: アナタハン 1953 123movies, Full Movie Online – June 1944. A group of Japanese sailors and soldiers end up on Anatahan, an isolated island, after their boats are sunk by US planes. The island is not deserted: a man and his wife live there. He is not pleased to see them and she and her beauty will test the group’s discipline, cohesion and selflessness..
Plot: Twelve Japanese seamen are stranded on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan for seven tense years of internal strife.
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Certainly Unique
Anatahan is a little island where a group of Japanese soldiers find themselves in 1944. They are a ragtag bunch with a harsh leader. Already on the island are a severe man and a beautiful young woman. It is assumed at first that they are married but it turns out they have both suffered family losses. As time goes by, discipline disappears. The men begin to lust after the woman and she, at times, encourages them. Eventually, she is in danger. The men begin a sort of “Lord of the Flies” thing as they move to their baser instincts. There is death here and we begin to wonder who will be alive at the end. This is an oddity of a film. The great director Joseph von Sternberg did this in Japan with a Japanese cast in 1953. The strange thing is that he narrates the whole thing in a simplistic way. The characters speak Japanese throughout and we don’t get to understand what they are saying. This is certainly worth seeing.
It’s a sad end
More of less ten years before making a film and twenty years after his great Marlene Dietrich seven films, Josef von Sternberg was out of luck. Then the Japanese offer him money over there and him to work with people in Japan. The dialogue is all Japanese and rather than subtitles Sternberg narrated the whole film. He found a dancer for the part and she in her first film is really good and ends having a decent career. The story is okay but not really very wonderful although we are surprised to get a couple of nude scenes although it was usually censored. Unfortunately as usual the director is without real locations other than a couple of a shots of the sea and two rocks with talk of the war and a plane. It’s a sad end as more of less his film career is all over.
Original Language ja
Runtime 1 hr 31 min (91 min), 1 hr 34 min (94 min) (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) (Argentina)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Drama, History, War
Director Josef von Sternberg
Writer Michiro Maruyama, Tatsuo Asano, Josef von Sternberg
Actors Akemi Negishi, Tadashi Suganuma, Kisaburo Sawamura
Country Japan
Awards 1 nomination
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Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Sound System), Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
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Negative Format 35 mm
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Printed Film Format 35 mm