Anatahan (1953)
June 28, 1953Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Akemi Negishi
Keiko Kusakabe, the 'Queen Bee'
Tadashi Suganuma
Kusakabe, Husband of Keiko
Kisaburo Sawamura
Kuroda
Shoji Nakayama
Nishio
Jun Fujikawa
Yoshisato
Hiroshi Kondō
Yanaginuma
Shozo Miyashita
Sennami
Kikuji Onoe
Kaneda
Tsuruemon Bando
Doi
Rokuriro Kineya
Marui
Daijiro Tamur
Kanzaki
Chizuru Kitagawa
A Homesick One
Josef von Sternberg
Director
Takeshi Suzuki
Takahashi
Tatsuo Asano
Writer
Shirō Amakusa
Amanuma
Kazuo Takimura
Producer
Takashi Kono
Art Direction
Akira Ifukube
Composer
Kōzō Okazaki
Cinematographer
Hisashi Kase
Sound Recordist
Mitsuzô Miyata
Editor
Nagamasa Kawakita .
Executive Producer
Yoshio Osawa
Executive Producer
Younghill Kang
Novel
Michiro Maruyama
Book
Iwashita
Assistant Director
Eiji Tsuburaya
Special Effects
Yoshio Watanabe
Special Effects
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 28, 1953
Original Nameアナタハン
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 31m
Genres
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Anatahan (アナタハン), also known as The Saga of Anatahan, is a 1953 black-and-white Japanese film war drama directed by Josef von Sternberg, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The World War II Japanese holdouts on Anatahan (then part of the South Seas Mandate of Imperial Japan, now one of the Northern Mariana Islands of the United States) also inspired a 1998 novel, Cage on the Sea.
It was the final work directed by noted Hollywood director Josef von Sternberg (although Jet Pilot was released later). Von Sternberg had an unusually high degree of control over the film, made outside the studio system, which allowed him to not only direct, but also write, photograph, and narrate the action. Although it opened modestly well in Japan, it did poorly in the US, where von Sternberg continued to recut the film for four more years. He subsequently abandoned the project and went on to teach film at UCLA for most of the remainder of his lifetime. The film was screened within the official selection during the 14th Venice Film Festival (1953).