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The Naked Island (Japanese: 裸の島, romanized: Hadaka no Shima) is a Japanese black-and-white film from 1960, directed by Kaneto Shindō. The film is notable for having almost no spoken dialogue. The film is notable for having almost no spoken dialogue.
The Naked Island. Director Kaneto Shindo’s documentary-like, dialogue-free portrayal of daily struggle is a work of stunning visual beauty and invention. The international breakthrough for one of Japan’s most innovative filmmakers—who went on to make other unique masterworks such as Onibaba and Kuroneko—The Naked Island follows a family ...
A study in the constant struggle of agrarian life, this dialogue-free, black-and-white film depicts one family's difficult existence. The sole inhabitants of an island in Japan's Seto Inland Sea ...
J apanese director Kaneto Shindo was one of the most inventive filmmakers of his time, and he repeatedly pushed the limits of cinema in both form and subject matter. This dedication to experimentation is exemplified by his 1960 film The Naked Island, in which he created a nearly dialogue-free portrait of a family living on a remote island that amalgamates documentary-like realism with ...
As fate would have it, The Naked Island ended up saving the outfit. Making a film with no dialogue at all is a daunting prospect – even Murnau’s closest effort required an intertitle to address his protagonist’s demotion – but Shindo does himself several favors by crafting a very simple setting and a very simple story.
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops. ... The Naked Island (1960) 11/23/1960 (JP) Drama ...
