Akemi Negishi
Keiko Kusakabe / "Queen Bee"
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Anatahan was the favorite film of Jim Morrison, who was a film student at University of California, Los Angeles when von Sternberg had been serving as a professor. Film-maker François Truffaut reportedly cited it as one of the ten best American films ever made. Cast. Akemi Negishi as the 'Queen Bee', Keiko Kusakabe
Summaries. From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan. June 1944. A group of Japanese sailors and soldiers end up on Anatahan, an isolated island, after their boats are sunk by US planes.
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Rent Anatahan on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. A woman gets stranded on a remote island with Japanese sailors during the waning days of World War II.
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- Josef Von Sternberg
- PG
- Akemi Negishi
Movies. Anatahan. By Richard Brody. January 26, 2017. In his last film, from 1953, based on the true story of Japanese sailors shipwrecked on a tiny Pacific island during the Second World...
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by Sarah Morgan. There’s a Laurel and Hardy movie called Block-Heads which begins with Stan guarding a trench, unaware that the First World War has ended; he is then rescued and taken back to civilisation. Made in 1938, it’s one of the comedy duo’s most popular films.
Negishi, who Von Sternberg discovered while performing on stage, illuminates Anatahan with a great cadence, and the film delivers a languid portrait of lust, power, hostility, confusion, regret and loneliness.
