Anatahan
- IMDb link: 0046712
- IMDb rating: 7 (1,514 votes)
- Genres: Drama, War, History
- Director: Josef von Sternberg
- Cast: Akemi Negishi, Tadashi Suganuma, Kisaburo Sawamura, Shoji Nakayama and others
- Release date: 28 Jun 1953
- Release year: 1953
- Runtime: 91 minutes
- Country: Japan
- Keywords: island, japanese, officer, voice over, seaman, hammock, jealousy, sexual desire, female nudity, castaway
Plot:
In June 1944, twelve Japanese seaman are stranded on an abandoned-and-forgotten island called Ana-ta-han for seven years. The island's only inhabitants are the overseer of the abandoned plantation and an attractive young Japanese woman. Discipline is represented by a former warrant officer but ends when he suffers a loss-of-face catastrophe. Soon, discipline and rationality are replaced by a struggle for power and the woman. Power is represented by a pair of pistols found in the wreckage of an American airplane, so important that five men pay for their lives in a bid for supremacy.