Hell in the Pacific

Hell in the Pacific


Starring:Lee Marvin, ToshirĂ´ Mifune
Director: John Boorman
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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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. With impressionistic strokes, Boorman paints a lush tropical paradise in colors you can drink from the screen, capturing the texture of their experience as refracted through the cinema: the look of the island as seen through the haze of smoke, the sound of a sudden rainstorm as it hushes the island in a calming roar, the timelessness of life outside of civilization. The story seems almost secondary, an allegorical drama that comes alive in the excellent performances by Marvin and Mifune (who soon enough converse despite their complete inability to understand each other's language) and the visceral immediacy of Boorman's gorgeous widescreen images. Hell in the Pacific is not a tale told as much as a film experienced. --Sean Axmaker
Hell in the Pacific
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Hell in The Pacifc
  • I didnt go through hell
  • A Different Kind of War Movie
  • Hell of a good movie!
  • Hell in the Pacific
 Hell in the Pacific
Starring: Lee Marvin , and Toshirô Mifune
Director: John Boorman
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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ASIN: B0001GF2FQ
Release Date: 2004-05-25

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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. With impressionistic strokes, Boorman paints a lush tropical paradise in colors you can drink from the screen, capturing the texture of their experience as refracted through the cinema: the look of the island as seen through the haze of smoke, the sound of a sudden rainstorm as it hushes the island in a calming roar, the timelessness of life outside of civilization. The story seems almost secondary, an allegorical drama that comes alive in the excellent performances by Marvin and Mifune (who soon enough converse despite their complete inability to understand each other's language) and the visceral immediacy of Boorman's gorgeous widescreen images. Hell in the Pacific is not a tale told as much as a film experienced. --Sean Axmaker

Description

From the director of Excalibur and Deliverance comes this "gripping" (Leonard Maltin)adventure about two wartime enemies trapped alone on a desert island. Academy AwardÂ(r) winner* Lee Marvin (The Dirty Dozen) and Toshiro Mifune (The Seven Samurai) deliver "striking and well-etched performances" (LA Herald-Examiner) in this searing psychological drama that packs "plenty of action and excitement" (Motion Picture Herald)! From the instant they meet, a marooned American soldier (Marvin) and his Japanese counterpart (Mifune) have the same objective: killing each other. But it soon becomes apparent that the only way they will survive isby forging an uneasy truce and cooperating with each other. Can they rise above the hatred that divides them long enough to stay alive?

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Hell in The Pacifc.......2007-05-07

I'm one of the big fan of Mifune. He is the first and last big Japanese actor approved in the world, I think. And also, Lee Marvin is one of my favourite US actors. These two big in Japan and US in one film. I think we never miss it...

5 out of 5 stars I didnt go through hell.......2007-03-25

The movie was great, and an absolute classic. The characters wre well established and thought out. I reccomend this film to everyone, with no exceptions......

5 out of 5 stars A Different Kind of War Movie.......2006-07-15

Watch it English,then in Japanese with Subtitles. Well done acting and visuals. There is a lot here. Meaningful to all.

4 out of 5 stars Hell of a good movie!.......2006-06-25

For a 1968 Hollywood-bankrolled war movie, HELL IN THE PACIFIC was almost right up there with the best of "foreign" films of the Sixties. Featuring only two characters throughout---a Japanese officer and an American office marooned together on a otherwise unpopulated Pacific island in 1944---the film puts us immediately into the difficulties facing the two men, who are enemies by their circumstances and literally cannot understand each other. The story of how they deal with their plight unfolds in ways that make perfect sense, and both Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune as the two exiles give performances that are both believable and affecting. In fact, the only thing that keeps this from being a five-star movie for me is the very end, which feels like it was grafted on at the behest of the studio heads; the alternate ending, included on this DVD release, makes much more sense and would have been better. But up until then you're watching one of the best war movies ever made.

4 out of 5 stars Hell in the Pacific.......2006-03-18

This is a quirkey and unique little movie. Definitely not perfect, but different, rewarding, and thought prevoking on several levels. I am not a Lee Marvin fan but I thought he and Toshiro Mifune did an excellent out-of-the-box acting job in this movie. If you liked the "The Gods Must Be Crazy" movies you will probably like "Hell in the Pacific".
Hell in the Pacific
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Hell in The Pacifc
  • I didnt go through hell
  • A Different Kind of War Movie
  • Hell of a good movie!
  • Hell in the Pacific
 Hell in the Pacific
Starring: Lee Marvin , and Toshirô Mifune
Director: John Boorman
Manufacturer: Anchor Bay
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: 6305617554
Release Date: 1999-11-16

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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. With impressionistic strokes, Boorman paints a lush tropical paradise in colors you can drink from the screen, capturing the texture of their experience as refracted through the cinema: the look of the island as seen through the haze of smoke, the sound of a sudden rainstorm as it hushes the island in a calming roar, the timelessness of life outside of civilization. The story seems almost secondary, an allegorical drama that comes alive in the excellent performances by Marvin and Mifune (who soon enough converse despite their complete inability to understand each other's language) and the visceral immediacy of Boorman's gorgeous widescreen images. Hell in the Pacific is not a tale told as much as a film experienced. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Hell in The Pacifc.......2007-05-07

I'm one of the big fan of Mifune. He is the first and last big Japanese actor approved in the world, I think. And also, Lee Marvin is one of my favourite US actors. These two big in Japan and US in one film. I think we never miss it...

5 out of 5 stars I didnt go through hell.......2007-03-25

The movie was great, and an absolute classic. The characters wre well established and thought out. I reccomend this film to everyone, with no exceptions......

5 out of 5 stars A Different Kind of War Movie.......2006-07-15

Watch it English,then in Japanese with Subtitles. Well done acting and visuals. There is a lot here. Meaningful to all.

4 out of 5 stars Hell of a good movie!.......2006-06-25

For a 1968 Hollywood-bankrolled war movie, HELL IN THE PACIFIC was almost right up there with the best of "foreign" films of the Sixties. Featuring only two characters throughout---a Japanese officer and an American office marooned together on a otherwise unpopulated Pacific island in 1944---the film puts us immediately into the difficulties facing the two men, who are enemies by their circumstances and literally cannot understand each other. The story of how they deal with their plight unfolds in ways that make perfect sense, and both Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune as the two exiles give performances that are both believable and affecting. In fact, the only thing that keeps this from being a five-star movie for me is the very end, which feels like it was grafted on at the behest of the studio heads; the alternate ending, included on this DVD release, makes much more sense and would have been better. But up until then you're watching one of the best war movies ever made.

4 out of 5 stars Hell in the Pacific.......2006-03-18

This is a quirkey and unique little movie. Definitely not perfect, but different, rewarding, and thought prevoking on several levels. I am not a Lee Marvin fan but I thought he and Toshiro Mifune did an excellent out-of-the-box acting job in this movie. If you liked the "The Gods Must Be Crazy" movies you will probably like "Hell in the Pacific".
Attack of the Chainsaw Mutants/Hell in the Pacific
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    		Attack of the Chainsaw Mutants/Hell in the Pacific
    Starring: The Meteors
    Manufacturer: Cherry Red UK
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    Release Date: 2004-05-11
    Hell in the Pacific [Region 2]
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Hell in The Pacifc
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    • Hell of a good movie!
    • Hell in the Pacific
    		 Hell in the Pacific [Region 2]
    Starring: Lee Marvin , and Toshirô Mifune
    Director: John Boorman
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    ASIN: B00005CC0R

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    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. With impressionistic strokes, Boorman paints a lush tropical paradise in colors you can drink from the screen, capturing the texture of their experience as refracted through the cinema: the look of the island as seen through the haze of smoke, the sound of a sudden rainstorm as it hushes the island in a calming roar, the timelessness of life outside of civilization. The story seems almost secondary, an allegorical drama that comes alive in the excellent performances by Marvin and Mifune (who soon enough converse despite their complete inability to understand each other's language) and the visceral immediacy of Boorman's gorgeous widescreen images. Hell in the Pacific is not a tale told as much as a film experienced. --Sean Axmaker

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Hell in The Pacifc.......2007-05-07

    I'm one of the big fan of Mifune. He is the first and last big Japanese actor approved in the world, I think. And also, Lee Marvin is one of my favourite US actors. These two big in Japan and US in one film. I think we never miss it...

    5 out of 5 stars I didnt go through hell.......2007-03-25

    The movie was great, and an absolute classic. The characters wre well established and thought out. I reccomend this film to everyone, with no exceptions......

    5 out of 5 stars A Different Kind of War Movie.......2006-07-15

    Watch it English,then in Japanese with Subtitles. Well done acting and visuals. There is a lot here. Meaningful to all.

    4 out of 5 stars Hell of a good movie!.......2006-06-25

    For a 1968 Hollywood-bankrolled war movie, HELL IN THE PACIFIC was almost right up there with the best of "foreign" films of the Sixties. Featuring only two characters throughout---a Japanese officer and an American office marooned together on a otherwise unpopulated Pacific island in 1944---the film puts us immediately into the difficulties facing the two men, who are enemies by their circumstances and literally cannot understand each other. The story of how they deal with their plight unfolds in ways that make perfect sense, and both Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune as the two exiles give performances that are both believable and affecting. In fact, the only thing that keeps this from being a five-star movie for me is the very end, which feels like it was grafted on at the behest of the studio heads; the alternate ending, included on this DVD release, makes much more sense and would have been better. But up until then you're watching one of the best war movies ever made.

    4 out of 5 stars Hell in the Pacific.......2006-03-18

    This is a quirkey and unique little movie. Definitely not perfect, but different, rewarding, and thought prevoking on several levels. I am not a Lee Marvin fan but I thought he and Toshiro Mifune did an excellent out-of-the-box acting job in this movie. If you liked the "The Gods Must Be Crazy" movies you will probably like "Hell in the Pacific".

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