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Anatahan
Twelve Japanese seamen are stranded on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan for seven tense years of internal strife.
Josef von Sternberg
Casts & Crew
Akemi Negishi
Tadashi Suganuma
Kisaburo Sawamura
Shoji Nakayama
Jun Fujikawa
Hiroshi Kondô
Shozo Miyashita
Josef von Sternberg
Kikuji Onoe
Rokuriro Kineya
Also Directed by Josef von Sternberg
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