The Naked Island (1960)

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94 min - Drama - 10 September 1962 (USA)

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Deals with the intolerably hard life of a family of four, the only inhabitants of a very small Japanese island in the Setonaikai archipelago... See full summary »

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Cast overview:
	Nobuko Otowa	...	Toyo, the mother
	Taiji Tonoyama	...	Senta, the father
	Shinji Tanaka	...	Tarô - the elder son
	Masanori Horimoto	...	Jirô - the younger son

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Deals with the intolerably hard life of a family of four, the only inhabitants of a very small Japanese island in the Setonaikai archipelago. Several times a day they row over to the neighboring island to fetch water for their miserable fields. Written by Michael Jurich <jurich@rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de>

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Japan

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10 September 1962 (USA) See more »

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A kopár sziget See more »

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Kindai Eiga Kyokai See more »

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94 min

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Mono

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Black and White

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2.35 : 1

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'Hadaka no shima' was made, in the words of its director, "as a 'cinematic poem' to try and capture the life of human beings struggling like ants against the forces of nature." See more »

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Referenced in 100 Years of Japanese Cinema (1995) See more »

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Hadaka no shima (original title)

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