The Naked Island
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Released
- 1960
- Country
- Japan
Details
Release year: 1960
Storyline
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
Top credits
Nobuko Otowa — Toyo, the mother
Taiji Tonoyama — Senta, the father
Shinji Tanaka — Tarô - the elder son
Masanori Horimoto — Jirô - the younger son
Awards
0 wins & 1 nomination
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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."
• Due to the success of the film in France, songwriter Eddy Marnay added some lyrics to the central musical theme by Hikaru Hayashi. The resulting song ("L'île nue") was successively performed by french singers Jacqueline Danno (1962) and later by Mathé Altéry (1968).
• Not a word is spoken for the first 37 minutes, 50 seconds.
User reviews
Beautiful, moving and brutal
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something the cinema can do at his best...
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
- Color
- Black and White
