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Kon Ichikawa - Taiheiyo hitori-botchi aka Alone Across the Pacific (1963)



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057553/



Language	Japanese

Subtitles	included: English 



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There's something about a solitary feat of physical endurance and accomplishment that can't help but capture a nation's
imagination.



In 1962 when 23-year-old Horie Kenichi completed the first solo sea voyage across the Pacific Ocean from Osaka to San
Francisco, a journey undertaken on an unpowered boat by a young man with little in the way of previous sailing
experience, the reaction in his home country was apparently one of widespread dismissal and even shame. In the Japan of
the time, the collective belief was that no individual should disrupt the harmony of the whole, and by secretly
embarking on such a quest without obtaining official permission, Horie's actions were seen not as heroic, but a those of
a criminal madman. It's a mark of the difference in the two societies at that time that in America Horie's achievement
was widely reported and celebrated, and although initially arrested for having no passport, he was quickly freed by San
Francisco's mayor and given a 30-day visa and the key to the city.



On his return to home shores, Horie wrote a book about his adventure, which the following year was adapted into a
feature film by writer Wada Natto and director Ichkawa Kon, who together had just completed An Actor's Revenge (Yukinojo
henge), one of the most striking Japanese films of the period. Alone Across the Pacific (Taiheiyo hitori-botchi)
apparently caught the public imagination in a way the event it portrayed had not. Perhaps it was due to the presentation
of the story in a format more readily associated with adventure and fiction, although a Japanese friend who grew up with
the cinema of this period suggested to me that it had more to do with the central casting of Ishihara Yujiro, an actor
admired by men and adored by women, in part for his tendency for playing characters who would cha