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The Naked Island

1960 · 97 min

A quiet, nearly wordless immersion in relentless physical labor and quiet endurance, where small joys and sudden loss land with immense weight.

Overview
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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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • survival
  • family
  • grief
  • isolation
  • work
Places
  • countryside
  • sea
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour1
Realism9
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Kaneto Shindō
Written by
Kaneto Shindō
Starring
Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka, Masanori Horimoto
Music
Hikaru Hayashi
Cinematography
Kiyomi Kuroda
Runtime
97 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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