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The Naked Island (1960)

Hadaka no shima (original title)
Not Rated | | Drama | 10 September 1962 (USA)
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A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

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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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There is no dialogue for the first 37 minutes, 50 seconds. See more »

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Referenced in Un siècle de cinéma japonais, par Nagisa Oshima (1995) See more »

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the most moving film
6 November 2001 | by (Toronto, Canada) – See all my reviews

I was surfing on the t.v. and came across this incredible "little" film on a French Canadian station. As there is no dialogue and the story is so human and pure, it is truly the most universal picture I've seen. I defy anyone not to be moved by the challenges which the characters face, the realism in the minimalist acting and the beauty of the simplistic black and white camerawork. I've never heard of this film, but I will tell all my friends about it.
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