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The Naked Island (1960, Shindo Kaneto)

February 22nd, 2006 No Comments

The Naked Island is about a family of four on a desolate, arid, and incredibly steep island. They have no motor boat and no clean water on the island, so every day they make multiple trips to the mainland for water. There’s a mother, a father, one boy who goes to school on the mainland, […]