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Anatahan (1953) on Blu-ray

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Actor : Akemi Negishi, Tadashi Suganuma, Kisaburo Sawamura, Shôji Nakayama
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Genre: Drama
Year: 1953
Studio: Kino Lorber
Length: 93 min
Released: April 25, 2017
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Format: Blu-ray
Misc: Closed-captioned, NTSC, Subtitled
Language: English, Japanese
Subtitles: English

DESCRIPTION:

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.

Special Features: New 2K restoration of the uncensored 1958 version (Sternberg s preferred cut of the film), with restored audio, The complete 1953 version of Anatahan, Visual essay by Tag Gallagher, Interview with Nicholas von Sternberg, U.S. Navy footage of the actual survivors of Anatahan, immediately after their surrender , Original theatrical trailer
Actor : Akemi Negishi, Tadashi Suganuma, Kisaburo Sawamura, Shôji Nakayama
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Genre: Drama
Year: 1953
Studio: Kino Lorber
Length: 93 min
Released: April 25, 2017
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Format: Blu-ray
Misc: Closed-captioned, NTSC, Subtitled
Language: English, Japanese
Subtitles: English

DESCRIPTION:

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.

Special Features: New 2K restoration of the uncensored 1958 version (Sternberg s preferred cut of the film), with restored audio, The complete 1953 version of Anatahan, Visual essay by Tag Gallagher, Interview with Nicholas von Sternberg, U.S. Navy footage of the actual survivors of Anatahan, immediately after their surrender , Original theatrical trailer
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