Anatahan

Anatahan (1953)

Genres - Drama, History, War  |   Release Date - Jun 28, 1953  |   Run Time - 92 min.  |   Countries - United States of America  |   MPAA Rating - PG
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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. The World War II Japanese holdouts on Anatahan 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).

The art director was Takashi Kono, special effects were made by Eiji Tsuburaya and the camera operator was Kozo Okazaki.

Movie Info

Box Office

$8,171

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Josef, Von Sternberg

Attributes

Narrative Location: Insular Oceania, set in the Northern Mariana Islands

Alternate Titles

A Saga de Anatahan
BR, PT
Ana-ta-han
US
Anatahan
CA, FR, GR, GB
Anatahan, The Saga of Anatahan
FR
Die Sage von Anatahan
DE
Fièvre sur Anatahan
FR
L'isola della donna contesa
IT
La saga de Anatahan
AR
The Devil's Pitchfork
US
The Saga of Anatahan
, FR, US
Ο θρύλος του Αναταχάν
GR
Сага об Анатаане
RU
アナタハン
JP