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The Naked Island (The Criterion Collection) [DVD]

Nobuko Otowa (Actor), Taiji Tonoyama (Actor), Kaneto Shindo (Director) Rated:
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Format: DVD
4.4 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
IMDb8.0/10.0
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Genre Drama
Format NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Contributor Shinji Tanaka, Nobuko Otowa, Kaneto Shindo, Taiji Tonoyama
Language Japanese
Runtime 1 hour and 36 minutes
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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 such other marvelous movies as Onibaba and Kuroneko The Naked Island follows a family whose home is on a tiny, remote island off the coast of Japan. They must row a great distance to another shore, collect water from a well in buckets, and row back to their island a nearly backbreaking task essential for the survival of these people and their land. Featuring a phenomenal modernist score by Hikaru Hayashi, this is a truly hypnotic experience, with a rhythm unlike that of any other film.

DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES 
- New, high-definition digital restoration
- Video introduction by director Kaneto Shindo, recorded for a 2011 retrospective of his work  
- Audio commentary recorded in 2000, featuring Shindo and composer Hikaru Hayashi
- New appreciation of the film by actor Benicio Del Toro
- New interview with film scholar Akira Mizuta Lippit 
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Haden Guest

Product details

  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 1.6 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2624
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Kaneto Shindo
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 36 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ May 17, 2016
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Criterion Collection
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01BUX7Z4E
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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    4.4 out of 5 stars 86 ratings

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  • Just A Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Old Japanese-made Movie with no Dialogue
    Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2023
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    I learned about this movie in a script writing course. It demonstrates that one can tell a story purely with moving images; that dialogue is not necessary to tell a story. If you are into movies and the art of storytelling, I think this movie should be in your viewing list. If, however, you're looking for a movie to enjoy with popcorn, I don't think this is it. It is in black and white film, deliberately slow paced, and in the end, sad. I'm glad I watched it, because I searched for it, and I wanted to see it. I didn't care if I would enjoy the experience or not; I watched it to learn something from it, not to be entertained by it. It left an indelible mark on me. Most movies are easily forgotten, even if enjoyed immensely. This one can linger on in your thoughts for a while.
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  • Stacygirl
    5.0 out of 5 stars Loud Silence
    Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2016
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    This movie rings loudly without saying a word. It is a protest against the hardship the ordinary peasant have to endure in Japan which is still very hierarchical society. Half of her cremated ashes were to rest in this island.
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  • gmpla
    5.0 out of 5 stars So POWERFUL A FILM >>> UNFORGETTABLE !...
    Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2012
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    At age 65, I don't think I have ever seen a movie that struck me so profoundly.
    Words are unnecessary to describe certain feelings about human relationships, about LIFE.
    Thank you Kaneto Shindo for such a TREASURE,
    Domo arigato and profound respect to Otowa and Tonoyama for their mesmerizing performances!
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  • John Romeo
    5.0 out of 5 stars A gem!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2015
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    I don't get all the so-called political undertones. It's simply one of the most beautiful films ever made! I've been waiting 50 years to see it again! The cinematography, the actors, the music - brilliant. What a gem!!!
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  • potzo
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must have.
    Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2017
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    A truly powerful film. One of the greats of cinema. In my top ten. An altogether different viewing experience than you are used too.
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  • Pablo Martin Podhorzer
    4.0 out of 5 stars The life of the peasant - Hadaka No Shima (1961) - 4 1/2 stars
    Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2008
    There are some good reviews of this film over the Net, and I don't think I can add more to this wonderful experience. Because that is the word: watching "Naked Island" (without breaks, and in a big screen if you can) is an experience. The repetitive and hard life of a family of agricultural peasants adquires greater significance when located in a small island (a big rock is maybe a more appropiate description) inside a bay. The superb music and visuals become one, explaining perfectly how the pre-capitalist leg of a mid-20th century economy worked in some places of the world. You simply can sense human effort when watching this. I cannot give an opinion on the quality of this copy, the one in film I saw was without scratches but blurred.
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  • Simon P. Walmsley
    5.0 out of 5 stars Everything was excellent. Since I saw it in 1962 in Seattle I had always wanted a copy and for me it was well worth it. Sadly Ii
    Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2013
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    could find anyone who likes it. Most want happy endings but this is a beautiful example of struggling for survival
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  • Richard V. Remillard
    5.0 out of 5 stars DVD-The Naked Island
    Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2008
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    I was very impressed with the rapid delivery of this DVD of the film The Naked Island, a movie I consider one of the most intense, and heart rending stories ever filmed.
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  • Edouard Dagenais
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on February 25, 2018
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    Excellent!
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  • Alan clayton
    5.0 out of 5 stars A film to ponder
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2013
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    Superficially, this is a detailed documentary charting the annual and perpetual toil of a Japanese couple and their two young boys on an island, as they strive to exist - it is little more than that - cultivating a rocky hillside, with no access to fresh water other than by making repeated journeys by boat to carry it in by the bucket-load from the near-bye mainland to irrigate their meagre crops.These tortuous journeys, and climbs made by each carefully balancing two buckets brimming with the precious liquid on a pole across their shoulders, form the main focus of a substantial proportion of the film, and certainly the film's most abiding image.
    Yet this is no documentary: the family members are all actors, and the carefully, and often beautifully, composed shots and sequences in this handsome letterboxed black and white film reveal that there is little here that is not carefully considered and worked upon. The dramatic use of natural sounds and music, and the careful observation of significant and sometimes dramatic details also reveal this, as does the often careful placing of actors and camera to produce patterning and symmetry within the frame. Yet, despite twice here referring to the dramatic, the film as a whole is not conventionally so. With the exception of one tragedy, and its immediate aftermath, which it would be unfair to reveal, the film carries little plot or story, only observation of the daily, and annual, routine. It is even essentially without dialogue, as seem to be the islanders' lives: even at moments of extreme stress, and there are several, not a word is uttered.
    It may be a great film - I am not sure - but if it is, it has nothing to do with story or characterisation, but rather with what it suggests and implies -- about the human condition, about relationships between the sexes, about the effects of extreme poverty and isolation even close beside civilisation and relative plenty, about the ageless nature of human suffering and endurance, perhaps even, in a post- nuclear Japan, about the effects on people of being reduced to a subsistence level where all that matters is survival, and there in no space for any form of interaction or activity which is not focused on that. Despite its seeming objectivity, the final effect of the film is almost mythic and symbolic (others have been reminded of the Greek myth of Sisyphus) and certainly intensely moving.
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  • Manuel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Muy recomendable. Un clásico imprescindible
    Reviewed in Spain on September 26, 2013
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    Gran película de kaneto Shindo y gran edición en Blu ray a cargo de Masters Of Cinema que muestra toda la belleza de su fotografía en blanco y negro.
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  • ランドルト環
    5.0 out of 5 stars 裸の島（1960年）
    Reviewed in Japan on September 6, 2021
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    離島に住む家族の生活を台詞なしで描いた、日本の実験的な映画。監督・脚本は、野心的な作品群で知られる日本のインディペンデント映画の先駆者の新藤兼人。モノクロ。シネマスコープ。96分。

    夫の千太（殿山泰司）と妻のトヨ（乙羽信子）、8歳の息子の太郎と6歳の息子の次郎の4人の家族は、瀬戸内海の小さな島に住んでいた。

    電気も水道もないその島には、彼らの他には誰も住んでいなかった。彼らは島の頂上に藁葺き屋根の小屋を建てて住み、段々畑で麦とサツマイモを栽培しながら暮らしていた。

    千太とトヨの日課は、隣の島から水を運んでくることだった。彼らは毎日、小船を漕いで隣の島まで行き、手桶に水を汲み、天秤棒で担いで水を島の頂上まで運ぶ。トヨは小船で、隣の島の小学校に通う太郎の送り迎えもしていた。

    彼らがなぜ、ギリシャ神話に出てくるシジフォスの労苦のような労働をしながら離島で不便な生活を続けているのかについては何の説明もなく、映画は彼らが小船を漕ぎ、天秤棒を担いで斜面を登り、畑に水をまく様子を克明に描写する。

    ある日、太郎が高熱を出す。千太は隣の島に行き、医者を探す。

    本作は瀬戸内海の広島県三原市沖の島々でロケーション撮影された。本作で家族が住んでいる島は宿禰島（すくねじま）で、隣の島は佐木島である。宿禰島は当時はほぼ無人の島だった。家族が市街地を訪れる場面は広島県尾道市で撮影された。

    殿山泰司と乙羽信子以外の出演者はすべて地元の人々である。

    本作の音声は、林光作曲の劇伴音楽と声を含む自然音のみで構成されており、話し言葉による台詞はない。劇中で何度も繰り返されるメインテーマ曲が印象的。

    題材と作風は、ルキノ・ヴィスコンティ監督の『揺れる大地』（1948年）のようなイタリアのネオレアリズモ映画に似ており、ドキュメンタリー風の生活描写を含んでいるが、本作はリアリズムよりも象徴的な表現を重視しており、生き延びるためにこつこつと働く農民の家族の物語を通して、労働と人生という普遍的かつ根源的なテーマを扱った、一種の映像詩として観賞することができる。

    本作は1961年のモスクワ国際映画祭で最優秀作品賞を受賞し、世界60カ国以上の国々で上映された。
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  • Franck PLAIN
    5.0 out of 5 stars Cadeau
    Reviewed in France on November 9, 2016
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    Ce produit a permis de faire un cadeau de fin d'année inhabituel mais cela a satisfait la famille à qui ce DVD était destiné et cette originalité a touché les personnes de ce foyer
    Merci
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