Ana-ta-han (1953)
Anatahan (original title)

Cast

Cast overview:
	Akemi Negishi	...	Keiko Kusakabe, the 'Queen Bee'
	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
	Takeshi Suzuki	...	Takahashi (as Suzuki)
	Shiro Amikura	...	Amanuma (as Amikura)

Storyline

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. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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