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The Naked Island 1960
Director Kaneto Shindo succinctly describes his 1964 film The Naked Island “as a cinematic poem to try to and capture the life of human beings struggling like ants against the forces of nature”.
The film, set on a rural, isolated island follows a couple and their two small children struggle with their day-to-day lives turning the viewer almost into a voyeur as we watch as the parents strenuously carry heavy containers of water up a steep hillside so that they…
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