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From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan.From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan.From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan.
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- 1 nomination
Tadashi Suganuma
- Kusakabe, Husband of Keiko
- (as Suganuma)
Kisaburo Sawamura
- Kuroda
- (as Sawamura)
Shôji Nakayama
- Nishio
- (as Nakayama)
Jun Fujikawa
- Yoshisato
- (as Fujikawa)
Hiroshi Kondô
- Yanaginuma
- (as Kondo)
Shozo Miyashita
- Sennami
- (as Miyashita)
Tsuruemon Bando
- Doi
- (as Tsuruemon)
Kikuji Onoe
- Kaneda
- (as Kikuji)
Rokuriro Kineya
- Marui
- (as Rokuriro)
Daijiro Tamura
- Kanzaki
- (as Tamura)
Chizuru Kitagawa
- A Homesick One
- (as Kitagawa)
Takeshi Suzuki
- Takahashi
- (as Suzuki)
Shirô Amakusa
- Amanuma
- (as Amikura)
Josef von Sternberg
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaThe plot is based on the actual story of one Japanese woman and 30-odd Japanese soldiers and sailors who remained on the island of Anatahan from June 1944 to 1951, when they were evacuated by the US Navy six years after the end of WWII. Due to inter-male conflicts about the woman, as well as probably disease and starvation, only 20 men survived. One of the survivors wrote the book "Anatahan" the movie is based on. However, Sternberg reduced the number of males to 13 for narrative purposes. (Source: Wikipedia ENG & FR and related links.)
- Crazy creditsIn the English-language version, all of the Japanese cast and crew members except Akemi Negishi are billed solely by their last names.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Cinéastes de notre temps: D'un silence l'autre (1967)
- SoundtracksAsatoya yunta
Composed by Chôhô Miyara
Sung by men with alternate lyrics
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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.
- christopher-underwood
- Jul 16, 2022
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- Also known as
- The Devil's Pitchfork
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $8,171
- Gross worldwide
- $8,171
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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