The Naked Island
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
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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.
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- Director
- Kaneto Shindō
- Starring
- Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka, Masanori Horimoto
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