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The Naked Island

Hadaka No Shima

Kindai Eiga Kyokai (1960)

8.0

6,767

drama

Japan | no dialogue | Color | 01:36

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Documentary-like, dialogue-free portrayal of 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.

Cast

	Nobuko Otowa	Toyo / the mother
	Taiji Tonoyama	Senta / the father
	Shinji Tanaka	Tarô - the elder son
	Masanori Horimoto	Jirô - the younger son
	Masako Chiba

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Director	Kaneto Shindo
Writer	Kaneto Shindo
Producer	Eisaku Matsuura, Kaneto Shindo
Musician	Hikaru Hayashi
Photography	Kiyomi Kuroda

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Edition details

Edition	Criterion Blu-Ray Edition
Nr Discs	1
Regions	Region A