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Two men, one American and one Japanese, are marooned on an uninhabited Pacific island. In order to survive they must accept their differences and work together, despite their two countries being at war.
Containing little dialogue, this film is not dubbed or sub-titled, thus authentically portraying the frustration of restricted communication between the two characters. The film was entirely shot in the Rock Islands of Palau in the north Pacific Ocean, near the Philippines in the Philippine Sea.
Marvin and Mifune are the only two actors in the entire film. Both actors had real-life World War II combat experience: Marvin served with the US Marines in the Pacific, where he was wounded and received the Purple Heart; meanwhile Mifune served in the Imperial Japanese Air Force.
Containing little dialogue, this film is not dubbed or sub-titled, thus authentically portraying the frustration of restricted communication between the two characters. The film was entirely shot in the Rock Islands of Palau in the north Pacific Ocean, near the Philippines in the Philippine Sea.
Marvin and Mifune are the only two actors in the entire film. Both actors had real-life World War II combat experience: Marvin served with the US Marines in the Pacific, where he was wounded and received the Purple Heart; meanwhile Mifune served in the Imperial Japanese Air Force.
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histerical film
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in one scene Lee marvin is hiding up in a tree
and takes a squirt on the sleeping jap guy below
and takes a squirt on the sleeping jap guy below
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pisses him off
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWujmzh9KkU
at first lee marvin is the prisoner of the jap guy
and he fvcks with him
then marvin gets free and escapes into the jungle
later manages to capture the jap guy and make him his prisoner
and does a bunch of shit to fvck with the jap guy
above is the only youtube vid I could locate concerning the film
you see the engineer Jap guy has all this bamboo architecture nigger rigged to collect fresh water
at first lee marvin is the prisoner of the jap guy
and he fvcks with him
then marvin gets free and escapes into the jungle
later manages to capture the jap guy and make him his prisoner
and does a bunch of shit to fvck with the jap guy
above is the only youtube vid I could locate concerning the film
you see the engineer Jap guy has all this bamboo architecture nigger rigged to collect fresh water
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Amazon.com essential video
Lone Japanese soldier Toshiro Mifune diligently scans the ocean from his island lookout as he must have thousands of times before, but this time he spies an abandoned life raft resting on a rocky bluff. Within minutes he's face to face with American sea-wreck survivor Lee Marvin and the two begin an elaborate game of cat and mouse. Director John Boorman presents this two-man war as a deadly game between a pair of overgrown children, who finally tire of it (as kids will) and settle into tolerated co-existence and then even something resembling a friendship.
Amazon.com essential video
Lone Japanese soldier Toshiro Mifune diligently scans the ocean from his island lookout as he must have thousands of times before, but this time he spies an abandoned life raft resting on a rocky bluff. Within minutes he's face to face with American sea-wreck survivor Lee Marvin and the two begin an elaborate game of cat and mouse. Director John Boorman presents this two-man war as a deadly game between a pair of overgrown children, who finally tire of it (as kids will) and settle into tolerated co-existence and then even something resembling a friendship.
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EDIT: strip off everything except the ID and use the blue "video camera" icon.
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You won't find a big ensemble cast in this World War II film from 1968. Only 2 actors tell the story, and they don't even speak the same langauge. But they don't need to, these two actors are Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune. They portray enemies, one American, one Japanese, marooned on an island in the midst of the war. They are so brillant in their portrayals, that actions really do speak louder than words. You won't even miss the fact that there are no subtitles when Mifune is speaking. His every expression, lets us know exactly what he is thinking.
When a disciplined Japanese Naval Officer discovers he is not alone on the small Island in the Pacific, he immediatly goes into high gear to protect and defend his territory. But he has met his match in the very undisciplined American Marine that has been washed ashore. And so it begins...these two do everything they can to capture, torture, and generally make life miserable for each other(and at times is on the comical side). The need for human contact though, becomes apparent and they stop short at killing each other, and actually form an attachment to each other.
When a disciplined Japanese Naval Officer discovers he is not alone on the small Island in the Pacific, he immediatly goes into high gear to protect and defend his territory. But he has met his match in the very undisciplined American Marine that has been washed ashore. And so it begins...these two do everything they can to capture, torture, and generally make life miserable for each other(and at times is on the comical side). The need for human contact though, becomes apparent and they stop short at killing each other, and actually form an attachment to each other.
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Lost on an unpopulated island, the two enemies must first fight, then carve out a grudging respect as they realize the desperateness of their plight, and how little wars mean when there are only two people in existence.
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"The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."
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During World War IIdigger said:
Nazi propagandists called black American soldiers monkeys
American propagandists called Japanese soldiers monkeys
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"There are strange hells within the minds war made." -Ivor Gurney
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Private Witt: [voice over] This great evil. Where does it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doin' this? Who's killin' us? Robbing us of life and light. Mockin' us with the sight of what we might've known. Does our ruin benefit the earth? Does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed to this night?
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Japanese Soldier: Are you righteous? Kind? Does your confidence lie in this? Are you loved by all? Know that I was, too. Do you imagine your suffering will be any less because you loved goodness and truth?
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"In this world, a man, himself, is nothing. And there ain't no world but this one."
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"We were a family. How'd it break up and come apart, so that now we're turned against each other? Each standing in the other's light. How'd we lose that good that was given us? Let it slip away. Scattered it, careless. What's keepin' us from reaching out, touching the glory?"
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[last lines]
Private Edward P. Train: Where is it that we were together? Who were you that I lived with? The brother. The friend. Darkness, light. Strife and love. Are they the workings of one mind? The features of the same face? Oh, my soul. Let me be in you now. Look out through my eyes. Look out at the things you made. All things shining.
Private Edward P. Train: Where is it that we were together? Who were you that I lived with? The brother. The friend. Darkness, light. Strife and love. Are they the workings of one mind? The features of the same face? Oh, my soul. Let me be in you now. Look out through my eyes. Look out at the things you made. All things shining.
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"The heart burns - but has to keep out of face how heart burns." - Ivor Gurney
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Private Witt: Everyone lookin' for salvation by himself. Each like a coal thrown from the fire.
Private Witt: Maybe all men got one big soul everybody's a part of, all faces are the same man.
First Sgt. Edward Welsh: What difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?
Private Witt: Maybe all men got one big soul everybody's a part of, all faces are the same man.
First Sgt. Edward Welsh: What difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?
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Private Witt: [narrating] War don't ennoble men. It turns them into dogs... poisons the soul.
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Private Witt: How did we loose all the good that was given us?. Let it slip away. Scattered careless
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Private Witt: I remember my mother when she was dyin', looked all shrunk up and gray. I asked her if she was afraid. She just shook her head. I was afraid to touch the death I seen in her. I couldn't find nothin' beautiful or uplifting about her goin' back to God. I heard of people talk about immortality, but I ain't seen it. I wondered how it'd be like when I died, what it'd be like to know this breath now was the last one you was ever gonna draw. I just hope I can meet it the same way she did, with the same... calm.
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