The Naked Island(裸の島)
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Japan · 1960
1h 37m
Director Kaneto Shindō
Starring Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka, Masanori Horimoto
Genre Drama
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Documenting the intolerably hard life of a family of four, the Naked Island depicts the both the tedium and drama of the everyday through the experiences of the only inhabitants of a very small Japanese island in the Setonaikai archipelago.
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