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Alone
on the Pacific
a k a
My Enemy, The Sea; Taiheiyo Hitori-Bochi; The Enemy,
the Sea
1963 - Japan -
Adventure Drama/Sea Adventure
PLOT DESCRIPTION
What
might have been a banal TV "movie of the
week" in American hands is transformed into a
work of art by Japanese director Kon Ichikawa (Harp
of Burma). Alone
on the Pacific is based on the true story of
Kenichi Horie, who as an adult fulfilled his childhood
ambition of crossing the Pacific in a small, handmade
vessel. Yuiro Ishihara stars as the erstwhile mariner,
who sets out on his mission from Japan's Osaka
Bay. Despite the ravages of the elements,
Ishihara realizes his goal, and in the last shot is
seen sailing beneath the Golden Gate bridge. The
film's more suspenseful moments are leavened by
welcome (and appropriate) doses of humor. Also titled My
Enemy, The Sea, Alone
on the Pacific is based on Kenichi Horie's own
logbook. The American print runs 100 minutes, 4
minutes shy of the original Japanese running time. ~
Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Suntory
Mermaid 2004
Type:
Features
Rating:
NR Running
Time: 104 minutes
Starring:
Yujiro
Ishihara, Masayuki
Mori
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By
THE NEW YORK TIMES
CAST FOR
'Alone on the Pacific'
Yujiro
Ishihara - The Youth
Masayuki
Mori - His Father
Shiro
Osaka
Hajime
Hana - His Friend
Ruriko
Asaoka
Kinuyo
Tanaka - His Mother
PRODUCTION
CREDITS
Kon
Ichikawa - Director
Natto
Wada - Screenwriter
Toru
Takemitsu - Composer (Music Score)
Kenichi
Horie - Book Author
Takashi
Matsuyama - Art Director
Masanori
Tsujii - Editor
Yoshihiro
Yamazaki - Cinematographer
Akira
Nakai - Producer
Yasushi
Akutagawa - Composer (Music Score)
AWARDS
Best
Foreign Film (nom) 1963 Golden Globe
SIMILAR
MOVIES
Kon-Tiki
(1951, Thor
Heyerdahl)
Mare
Matto (1963, Renato
Castellani)
Horrie
sailing into Tokyo in his first solar boat 1996
KON
ICHIKAWA
Director/Screenwriter : Born
November 20, 1915 - Ise, Mie Prefecture, Japan
From All Movie Guide: Kon
Ichikawa is considered one of the masters of the
immediate postwar generation of Japanese filmmakers - a
generation often overshadowed by the titanic presence of
Akira
Kurosawa. Like Kurosawa, Ichikawa frequently takes
secondary sources and makes them his own. Also like
Kurosawa, he is an exacting perfectionist and master of
the widescreen format. ...Continue
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The
Japan Times: Jan. 13, 2005
- Solo
yachtsman passes Cape Horn
Adventurer Kenichi Horie passed Cape Horn at the tip of
South America on Tuesday as he continues on his nonstop
solo sailing circumnavigation, according to his
supporters in Japan.
"I
am happy that I could clear the first target,"
Horie, 66, was quoted as saying. "Tasmania is the
next target."
He
left a harbor in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, Oct. 1
on a 4.7-ton yacht in a bid to repeat a trip he made in
1974.
Kenichi
Horrie 2004
In
1996, Kenichi Horrie succeeded in a solo journey
without stopping at any port between
Ecuador and Tokyo with “MALT’s
Mermaid”, a solar-powered boat, made
out of recycled aluminum cans.
In
1999, he made a journey from Golden Gate
Bridge of San Francisco, the USA, to
Akashi Strait Bridge with “MALT’s
Mermaid II”, which was made out of
recycled beer barrels.
In
2002, the fortieth anniversary of his
first success in the across-the-Pacific
journey, he made a successful attempt at
restaging his first solo cruise across
the Pacific to pay tribute to San
Francisco with “MALT’s Mermaid
III”.
The inspiration for challenges of
Mr. Ken’ichi Horie, who turned 65 years of age
this year, is still ongoing, and in this year,
he will restage his first round-the-world solo
cruise without stopping at any port after 30
years, with “SUNTORY Mermaid”.
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