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Hadaka no shima(1960)

  • Genre:
    • Drama
  • Director:
    • Kaneto Shindô

Deals with the intolerably hard life of a family of four, the only inhabitants of a very small Japanese island in the Setonaikai archipelago. Several times a day they row over to the neighboring island to fetch water for their miserable fields.

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Written by coolathlon on 24.03.2011

After a long time without a real 'whoa' I must admit I was completely overwhelmed by this movie.
In the early morning of a summer day a man and his wife row to the harbour and take two barrels of water each to their boat. Handdriven they go on an island that is steep, full of rocks but made their h

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