The Saga of Anatahan (1953)

Review: The Saga of Anatahan (1953)

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Cast: Akemi Negishi, Tadashi Suganuma, Kisaburo Sawamura, Shoji Nakayama, Jun Fujikawa,

Akemi Negishi
Akemi Negishi
Tadashi Suganuma
Tadashi Suganuma
Kisaburo Sawamura
Kisaburo Sawamura
Shoji Nakayama
Shoji Nakayama
Jun Fujikawa
Jun Fujikawa

Plot: During WWII, a group of Japanese soldiers are stranded on the remote Pacific island of Anatahan.

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A frustrating evening

A frustrating evening

When my friend Howard came over for an evening of movie-watching recently, we ended up with a highly idiosyncratic double-bill of problematic features, one representing self-conscious art, the other polished commercial craft – neither […]

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