The Naked Island

the naked island proves that the director, kaneto shindo, can use the same beauty and grace that creates the haunting and chilling experiences of his horror films to create an effective and emotionally affecting drama about life on a rural island. of course, i am not familiar with his filmography outside of kuroneko and onibaba so this could be something that was clear to everyone else, but it was still quite a discovery for me. the poetic techniques of those other films are very clearly still utilized in this film but for a very different effect. although i don't think that it is as read more

The Naked Island: The Silence of the Sea By Haden Guest ESSAYS — MAY 17, 2016 Naked Island essay With its novel melding of techniques from silent cinema and contemporary documentary, Kaneto Shindos masterful The Naked Island seems suspended between two worlds, its portrait of twentieth-century peasant life offered as both a timeless fable about human endurance and a sharp critique of Japans sudden leap into the capitalist new world order. Indeed, the 1960 film marked a crucial transitional moment in the history of postwar Japanese cinema, between the late flowering of studio read more