Anatahan

Anatahan

1953 · 91 min · JA · 6.7 (32 votes)
Dir. Josef von Sternberg · Starring Akemi Negishi, Tadashi Suganuma, Kisaburo Sawamura, Shoji Nakayama, Jun Fujikawa, Hiroshi Kondō · Music Akira Ifukube
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During WWII, a group of Japanese soldiers are stranded on the remote Pacific island of Anatahan.

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A suffocating, primal descent into madness. Stranded soldiers on a remote island grapple with isolation, paranoia, and the erosion of their humanity. It's a stark, claustrophobic examination of the human psyche under extreme duress.

oppressiveclaustrophobicdesperateprimalslow-burnwartime dramapsychological thrillerblack-and-whitesurvivalmasculinityisolationmadness
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