Anatahan

Anatahan (アナタハン^?), also known as The Saga of Anatahan, is a 1953 black-and-white Japanese film war drama directed by Josef von Sternberg.

It was the final work directed by noted Hollywood director Josef von Sternberg (although Jet Pilot was released later). Von Sternberg had an unusually high degree of control over the film, made outside the studio system, which allowed him to not only direct, but also write, photograph, and narrate the action. Although it opened modestly well in Japan, it did poorly in America, where von Sternberg continued to recut the film for four more years. He subsequently abandoned the project and went on to teach film at UCLA for most of the remainder of his lifetime.

Art director was Takashi Kono, special effects was made by Eiji Tsuburaya and camera operator was Kozo Okazaki.^[2]

Plot

Twelve men of a shipwreck find themselves on a desert island, which is only inhabited by a farmer and a beautiful woman. A bloody struggle of power ensues, as also they find hand weapons from the crash of an American fighter.

Cast

• Akemi Negishi as the 'Queen Bee', Keiko Kusakabe
• Tadashi Suganuma as Kusakabe, Husband of Keiko
• Kisaburo Sawamura as Kuroda
• Shōji Nakayama as Nishio
• Jun Fujikawa as Yoshisato
• Hiroshi Kondō as Yanaginuma
• Shozo Miyashita as Sennami
• Tsuruemon Bando as Doi
• Kikuji Onoe as Kaneda
• Rokuriro Kineya as Marui
• Daijiro Tamura as Kanzaki
• Chizuru Kitagawa
• Takeshi Suzuki as Takahashi
• Shiro Amikura as Amanuma
• Josef von Sternberg as voice of narrator (uncredited)

References

External links

• Anatahan at the Internet Movie Database
• Italian movie poster

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