Sunday, April 4, 2010

The Naked Island

Japan 1960

This was a great film. One of the world's treasures. No dialogue. A family struggle to survive living on an island in the inland sea. They have to carry all the water they use for irrigation from the mainland by boat and carry it up the steep paths to the terraces where their crops grow. It's both a demanding physical reality and a poignant metaphor for life's struggle.

Brilliantly composed and shot. Moving, profound. A masterpiece.

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