Alone Across the Pacific
- Original title
- Taiheiyo Hitori-botchi (Alone Across the Pacific)aka
- AKA
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- Alone on the Pacific
- Year
- 1963
- Running time
- 97 min.
- Country
Japan
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Natto Wada. Story: Kenichi Horie
- Cast
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- Yujiro Ishihara
- Masayuki Mori
- Kinuyo Tanaka
- Hajime Hana
- Shirô Ôsaka
- Gannosuke Ashiya
- Tokuhei Miyahara
- Kôichi Uenoyama
- Daizaburo Hirata
- Kojiro Kusanagi
- Ruriko Asaoka
- Norikatsu Hanamura
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Adventure. Drama | Sea Adventures. Based on a true story
- Synopsis
- A powerful hymn to the human spirit, Alone Across the Pacific – by renowned Japanese director Kon Ichikawa (An Actor’s Revenge, The Burmese Harp, Tokyo Olympiad) – tells the extraordinary real-life story of one man’s obsessive quest to break free from the strictures of society. In 1962, Kenichi Horie (Yujiro Ishihara) embarks on a heroic attempt to sail single-handed across the Pacific Ocean. Leaving Osaka in an ill-prepared vessel – The Mermaid – the young adventurer must overcome the most savage of seas, the psychological torment of cabin fever, and his mental and physical breaking point, if he is ever to reach the fabled destination of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. Using Horie’s best-selling logbook as his source, Ichikawa portrays the epic struggle of man against nature. ‘Scope cinematography – with Horie isolated in the oceanic expanse of the frame – and a score by celebrated composer Toru Takemitsu, add to the drama of a film for which Ichikawa received a Golden Globe nomination, among other accolades. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Alone Across the Pacific for home viewing in the UK for the very first time.
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- Awards
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1964: Cannes Film Festival: Nominated for Palme d'Or/Golden Palm (Best Film)1963: Golden Globes: Nominee to Samuel Goldwyn Award (Best Foreign Film)
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