The Saga of Anatahan Films Sans Frontieres

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Infobase, film distributor.

Films sans frontières (Firm)

Language:

English

Japanese

Genre:

Internet videos

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 27 min., 17 sec)) sound

Distribution:

New York, N.Y. Distributed by Infobase, 2016

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Films Sans Frontieres, [1953]

Language Note:

Closed-captioned

System Details:

Streaming video file

System requirements: FOD playback platform

video file

Summary:

Directed by Josef Von Sternberg. Josef von Sternberg directed, photographed, provides the voice-over narration and wrote the screenplay (from a based-on-actual event novel by Michiro Maruyana translated by Younghill Kang) about twelve Japanese seaman who, in June 1944, are stranded on an abandoned-and-forgotten island called An-ta-han for seven years. The island's only inhabitants are the overseer of the abandoned plantation and an attractive young Japanese woman. Discipline is represented by a former warrant officer but ends when he suffers a loss-of-face catastrophe. Soon, discipline and rationality are replaced by a struggle for power and the woman. Power is represented by a pair of pistols found in the wreckage of an American airplane, so important that five men pay for their lives in a bid for supremacy. Featuring Akemi Negishi, Tadashi Suganuma, Hiroshi Kondo, Soji Nakayama. Country of production: Japan. (With English subtitles.) Also released as Anatahan. <br /><br />Some World Cinema titles may contain mature themes or content. Viewer discretion is advised.

Contents:

The Saga of Anatahan (27:17);

Notes:

Originally released by Films Sans Frontieres, 1953

Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 15, 2016

Title from distributor's description

OCLC:

1143507173

Publisher Number:

57036 Infobase

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license